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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A plea for bad block handling in the file system.
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Date: 23 May 88 01:18:18 GMT
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A word of warning. SCSI Drives that are targeted for the Mac are formatted
with 532 byte sectors. This will screw up amigaDOS which is expecting 512
bytes sectors. The solution is to send the SCSI 'mode' command to the drive
and tell it to use 512 byte sectors and then hard format it.


--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.