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I've bought a third party DEC DSP3105S for my NeXT Mono Slab and in the initial 
excitement I ran Rory Bolt's formatter1.2 which I suspect screwed up the SCSI 
mode pages (of which I understand nil). Now the drive seems to think that it 
has 1024 bytes/sector but "low level"(?) it still has 512 bytes/sector (as 
reported by scsimodes). Builddisk works fine, sdform as well, but after some 
use, fsck reports excessive inode dup's and a lot of Apps core dump or show 
other strange behaviour. I suspect that the drive is now really formatted 
wrong, due to the fact that formatter is for Fujitsu disks and other "vanilla"
SCSI disks as described in the README of formatter.

Charles Chambers initially wrote scsitools because something similar happened
to him, and he had to restore sane scsi modem pages. I now seem to be in the 
same predicament with my DEC disk. I know TECOR sells this disk for NeXTs, so 
if someone who has such a disk on his NeXT would run scsitools/sense for me 
and send me the output I would be most grateful.

Please e-mail directly, I will summarize if there is more to it than just a
reselect with the right scsi mode page input. I'll also try to have Charles 
Chambers put the PARMFILE for this disk into the scsitools distribution.

Adrian

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Dr. Adrian Steinmann, Steinmann Consulting
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