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

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From: Sandwich Maker
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:30

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bardhan@Corp.Megatest.COM (Paul Bardhan) writes:
"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.

it's probably not using all the cyls because the drive uses zbr [zone
bit recording], with a variable number of sectors per track.
so the geometry you format, which has a fixed sec/tk, has only an
approximation of the real number of cylinders.  more important is the
total number of sectors [or blocks], which should be the same.
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