I'm still trying to configure my new Atlas III drive on my Alpha 800 and I
wanted to find the exact drive geometry info, but couldn't find it.
I tried the quantum web site and nothing about it is there, I tried their fax
back and still nothing.
The default disklabel detected on the machine wants to use cylinders 0 - 7799
but it shows a total cylinders of 8057, the 7800 cylinders would make a capacity
of barely over 17gigs, certainly not 18, even if they count gigs in billions and
not in real gigs.
The 8057 cylinders would make the capacity more in line with the actual that
it's supposed to be.
But can I safely use these cylinders over the 7800 all the way to 8057?
The real geometry of that drive could shed some light on this, I'm not sure I
can trust what unix found by itself, so I'd like to find actual drive geometry
to make sure.
Would anyone have that info or where to find it?
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Didier Godefroy
mailto:dg_at_ulysium.net
Received on Sun Jan 03 1999 - 04:42:49 NZDT