Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: How do you get a prime number of sectors per cylinder?
Message-ID: <818@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 04:30:13 GMT
References: <749@elxsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <749@elxsi.UUCP> matt@beatnix.UUCP (Matthew D. Shaver) writes:
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<Here is a strange one for you.  (At least I find it strange.) The Seagate
<ST251N (SCSI) drive has the following statistics:
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<    sectors per track     26
<    data surfaces          4
<    sectors per cylinder 103
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<Now 4 times 26 equals 104 so where does that extra sector go?  Are they
<using it for something special?

Well, I spent most of Friday installing and low-level formatting
ST-251 disks (ST-506 interface). They've got *6* heads and 820 cylinders.
I suspect that the controller on the HD is lying to the SCSI controller
for some reason.

Maybe those are "logical" cylinders, not physical?

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