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From: zardoz!neil@uunet.uu.net (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Help with Sun 3/60 + Maxtor XT-8760S
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 8 May 89 13:23:23 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 274, message 3 of 12

In article <405@adiron.UUCP> adiron!tro@uunet.uu.net (Tom Olin) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 250, message 7 of 13
>I am trying to format a Maxtor XT-8760S (760MB) drive on a Sun 3/60
>(version 3.5 SunOS), without success.

We don't sell Maxtor 8760S drives (the CDC's are cheaper and have worked
very well for us), but I have been told to use the following: 1626 data
cylinders, 2 spare cylinders, 1632 physical cylinders, 15 heads, 53
sectors per track.  There is a jumper on many disk drives that chooses
between 1 more or less sector per track, you might check the the Maxtor
has one, and set it to 53 sectors per track if so.  I seem to recall a bug
in earlier version of Sunos that wouldn't allow more than 1400 or so
cyulinders, but maybe it's fixed now.

Neil Gorsuch
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