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From: eyal@echo.canberra.edu.au (Eyal Lebedinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: 9380S disk format question
Message-ID: <9011131301.AA21359@echo.canberra.edu.au>
Date: 14 Nov 90 04:01:12 GMT
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Hello,

I was wondering how the disk is organized. Doing some number juggling I
concluded that the disk is organized as:
1219 cylinders (+5 spare)
15 heads * 36 sectors = 540 - 4 spare = 536 sectors used
disk capacity = 1219*536 = 653384 blocks = 319Meg.

Now, from other sources I find that the disk can be had in a 1Kbyte sector
configuration, 19 sectors/track. This will add up to about 335Megs available.
That is 16Megs extra, blocksize = minix blocksize.

The question: can the SCSI device be reformatted? easily? I mean with just some
software, no special manufacturer utilities.

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Regards
	Eyal