Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!evax!finger From: finger@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Jay Finger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: SCSI formatter Message-ID: <1991Feb15.005410.28947@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 00:54:10 GMT References: <12117@helios.TAMU.EDU> <5221@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 14 In article <5221@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> news@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Remote news user) writes: >Ugh, I hate posting ambiguous information. sdform will format >a Maxtor disk at 1024bytes/sector. I do not know how sdform >decides on this, if there is a way to change it, or if it >adapts itself to the disk. If I get a real answer about that >one I will post it here. Well, I've got a brand new Maxtor XT-8760S that cam with 512Bytes/Sector. "sdform" doesn't set it to 1024/Sector. Maybe sdform simply reformats the drive with whatever parameters the drive already has??? -- Jay Finger #include finger@evax.uta.edu