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From: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: st277n drive and sectors per track & cyl
Summary: Fake it
Keywords: mount,st277n
Message-ID: <11175@gryphon.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 89 06:19:02 GMT
References: <mount> <3836@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow)
Organization: Wizardess Designs, Hermosa Beach, Ca.
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In article <3836@cs.Buffalo.EDU> mpalumbo@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Palumbo) writes:
>
>i just bought a st277n drive and noticed that it has 26 sectors
>per track but only has 155 sectors per cylinder.  How does this 
>work with the mountlist where you only indicate number of sectors
>per track?  Will this drive work or am i missing something?
>
>where does the number of sectors per track get used?
>does the format command issue track formats, or does
>it format a sector at a time?
>
The proper trick (or at least the easiest) is to tell the mountlist that the
drive has only one head and 155 blockspertrack. That is the way I use the
drive here and it works peachy with both StarDrive and HardFrame and with
both OldFS and FFS.

-- 
Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit.
Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one.

{@_@}
	jdow@bix (where else?)		Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes
	jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM		the knight. Does the fair maiden ever
	{backbone}!gryphon!jdow		win? Surely both the knight and dragon
					stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide?
					Better yet - she should get an Amiga and
					quit playing with dragons and knights.