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Subject: Seagate ST-01 Host Adaptor & Large Disks
Keywords: scsi seagate st-01
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.155159.17844@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 13 Mar 91 15:51:59 GMT
Reply-To: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca (Alvin Austin)
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Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK CANADA
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Does anyone have a software driver or other solution for using
the Seagate ST-01 Host Adaptor with a large disk (more than 1024
cylinders) and MS-DOS?

The firmware on this board does not map the drive geometry to
something that DOS can cope with, and so any cylinders > 1024 are
not accessible.

I want to connect the ST-01 to a Fujitsu M2613SA SCSI disk (135 MB).
The actual disk specs are: 1336 cyl x 6 heads x 34 sectors/trk.
I would like DOS to see something like 668 cyl x 12 heads x 34 sec/trk,
or anything similar within the DOS limits (< 1024 cyl, < 64 heads).

Any help will be appreciated!  

Thanks,

Alvin
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Alvin Austin                                Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca
Department of Computational Science
(Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building     Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building
University of Saskatchewan              Telephone: (306) 966-4895
Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA  S7N 0W0              FAX: (306) 966-8709
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