Dear Sir,
Some weeks ago I receveid by you (through our INFO centre) precious
suggestions about the connection of a 3.5" MO drive to our workstation
DEC Alpha 500/500. Now, the unit has been set as "DISK DRIVE" and it
works rather well, so I would need your help.
I am able to read and write MO disks up to 230 Mb of capacity, but I
am not able to read and write 640 Mb MO disks. The reason should be
the "anomalous" format of 640 Mb disks.
Indeed, they are formatted to 2048 bytes/sector instead of 512
bytes/sector. In fact, trying to mount a 640 Mb disk, the workstation
sees it as a 118 Mb disk, approximately equivalent to 640/4.
Could I add an entry in the /etc/disktab file assuming as template
the DEC RWZ21 entry (for 230 Mb MO disk drives) setting the "se"
value to 2048 ? Do you think that this could be the right solution ?
Should I follow another procedure ?
Thank you very much for your kind attention
Sincerely yours
Paolo D'ATANASIO
ENEA
C.R. Casaccia
Via Anguillarese, 301 Phone: +39 6 3048 6226
I-00060 S. MARIA DI GALERIA RM Fax : +39 6 3048 6103
Received on Fri Nov 07 1997 - 13:04:41 NZDT