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Old Quantum Prodrive 105S lowformat info. Anyone?
« on: January 18, 2004, 08:26:34 PM »
I have this old but faithful Quantum ProDrive 105S (scsi 105Mb,  not the LPS) that I want to low level format on Workbench 3.1.

Anyone has this drive's correct info from the HDToolbox page?  Like cylinders, heads, blocks per track, head parking track, etc etc...

Thanks!  :-)
 

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Old Quantum Prodrive 105S lowformat info. Anyone?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2004, 11:58:26 PM »
Well... to late.  :-D Smarty-pants me already low level formatted the poor thing yesterday.

HDtoolbox reports that the drive won't answer the regular scsi autodetect command so I tried to setup manually.

I did tried the 974 Cylinders, 6 heads , 35 sectors you mention along with 210 blocks/cyl and no reselection as taken from another site and the drive low level formats well as well as partitioning into a 'System' (20mb) and 'Work' (84mb) drives.  But later in WB3.1 when I try to format the second 'work' partition, format bombs at track 927.  The 'System' drive formats fine.

I then repartitioned the 'work drive' to end JUST below track 927 and all works well (except that I obviously loose some hd memory from the unused tracks beyond 927).

That's when I thought I may have 'low level format' it wrong causing trouble on the higher tracks.  'Verifying' the drive gives no bad sectors adding to the confusion.

Maybe is this old scsi card rom (v3.0 GVP HCII) not getting along with wb3.1.

Still thanks everyone for the patience.