Re: Format.dat for ST15230N (Seagate 4.2G Hawk 4)

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From: Scott Grigsby
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 21:58

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In article <DD0491.Ezo@corp.megatest.com>,
Paul Bardhan <bardhan@Corp.Megatest.COM> wrote:
>Can anybody point me towards a format.dat for Segate
>Hawk 4 (ST15230N), 4.2G Fast SCCI 2 hard drive ?
>The auto-configure of Solaris 2.4 is not formatting
>the drive very efficiently - using 3974 of 3992
>cylinders. I am using a Sparcstation 5.

Here's the entry from that large format.dat posted periodically
in comp.sys.sun.admin.  (Maintained by John DiMarco (jdd@cdf.toronto.edu))

-----snip----------
#
# From: "Kaja P. Christiansen" <kaja@daimi.aau.dk>
# Seagate Hawk 4GB
# I looked at the geometry with scsiinfo.
#
disk_type = "SEAGATE ST15230N" \
        : ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 9 \
        : trks_zone = 19 : atrks = 38  : asect = 12  \
        : ncyl = 3974 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 3992 : nhead = 19 : nsect = 111 \
        : rpm = 5411 : bpt = 56320

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Scott
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