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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Quantum SCSI drive and 2090
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Date: 13 Nov 88 18:44:07 GMT
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ricks@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Rick Schaeffer) writes:
> For instance, the
> drive manual states that there are two "zones" on the drive.  The outer
> zone has 35 sectors/track and the inner zone has 28 sectors per track.
> Well...the amiga don't know about "zones" so how many sectors per track
> do you tell prep that it has?  The answer is pretty much anything that
> adds up to the specified total number of sectors (164,058)...with SCSI
> controllers the cylinders/surfaces/sectors specifications are somewhat
> superfluous since SCSI only needs to know what sector you want!

Won't this screw up any optimizations based on knowing what's on
different cylinders, etc.?  Does ffs do anything like this?

-Miles