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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: URGENT hard disk questions.
Message-ID: <4@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 01:17:32 GMT
References: <3885@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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In article <3885@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock) writes:
>Could some one tell me what the appropriate Blocks per track and Surfaces and 
>Interleave numbers are for a ST277N SCSI drive.

The ST277N contains 126790 usable blocks.  I have mine set up as 5 heads,
31 sectors/track, 818 cylinders.  These numbers ARE NOT the actual
geometry, but the allow you to get to every single usable block.

-Fred