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Re: Need help formatting a Quantum LP240S hard drive.
« on: September 27, 2003, 12:55:33 AM »
For scsi-devices the amount of heads and cylinders doesn't count. ONLY the amount of sectors is important. And 479 350 divided by 2 gives 239 675 sectors with 1024 bytes. And that is a LP240s (HD manufacturer count a sector as 1000 bytes.)
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Re: Need help formatting a Quantum LP240S hard drive.
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2003, 10:09:58 PM »
Bwelieve me. It doesn't matter how many heads etc your drive has. Only the amount of sectors is imkportant,so if HD-Toolbox gets this number correct (or a litle less than the correct number) you are on the saveside. SCSI drives a intelligent drices, they know how todeal with heads and cylinder, only the total amount of sectors is important.

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Re: Need help formatting a Quantum LP240S hard drive.
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2003, 10:44:12 PM »
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