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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: more than 8 heads?
Keywords: hard disk
Message-ID: <1763@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 18:15:37 GMT
References: <7759@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Distribution: usa
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <7759@killer.Dallas.TX.US>, tony@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Tony Holden) writes:
> I think I saw this a while back but can't find it anywhere.
> 
> I picked up a Fujitsu 72meg hd. with 754 cyl and *11* heads.
> 
> Badtrk will scan the entire hd., but mkfs will not give me the entire 70meg
> and will also not give a useable filesystem.

This is an old bug (actually in the documentation).  If the disk has
more than 8 heads you need to set the control field to 8 when you
are initializing the disk.  It is in one of the menus when you
set up the drive.

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