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From: jdm@gryphon.COM (John Mesiavech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MountList entry for Quantum 80 needed
Summary: Here's the info for the Quantum Q280 drive
Message-ID: <15565@gryphon.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 03:27:09 GMT
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Reply-To: jdm@gryphon.COM (John Mesiavech)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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 Larry et al:
 
Here's the params needed for the Quantum Q280 5.25" drive.
 
Now, at most this'll get you 76 Meg on the drive, but the drive (
with current low-level formatters I've tried by FOUR different companies-
IVS, C.Ltd, GVP, and Pacific Peripherals- is simply not gonna format to
any more.)
 
DH0: Device = (YouNameIt.device)
     Unit = (YourUnitNumber)
     Flags = 0 (most commonly, anyway)
     Surfaces = 6
     BlocksPerTrack = 31
     Reserved = 2 (IMPORTANT!)
     Interleave = (your interleave, depends on controller)
     LowCyl = 0
     HighCyl = 823
     Buffers = (whatever you commonly use, I use 9)
     BufMemType = 1 (means use whatever memory's available)
     #
 
This one WORKS for the SlowFileSystem.  To use FFS add the appropriate
lines for your controller.  Even on a Mac the drive formats out to
76 meg free...INFO will show 72Meg for SlowFS, 76Meg FFS
 
John


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