Maxtor LXT-200S format.dat

[Barry Lustig]

In article <1990Aug13.010101.4144 at rice.edu> ekrell at ulysses.att.com writes:
>>Note also that
>>on the Sun you only get about 160MB out of the drive rather than 200...
>
>>disk_type = "Maxtor LXT-200S" \
>>        : ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 2 \
>>        : cache = 0x5c : trks_zone = 6 : atrks = 0 : asect = 1 \
>>        : ncyl = 1314 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1320 : nhead = 7 : nsect = 33 \
>>        : rpm = 3662 : bpt = 16896
>
>This format.dat entry doesn't use all the sectors the disk has, that's why
>you only get 160MB or so. If you use
>
>disk_type = "Maxtor LXT-200S" \
>        : ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 5 \
>        : trks_zone = 1 : atrks = 0 : asect = 1 \
>        : ncyl = 998 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1314 \
>        : nhead = 7 : nsect = 56 \
>        : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 33920
>
>You get around 195MB. That's the entry we use. It yields a total of
>391,216 sectors.

Eduardo,

I call your 391,216 and raise you 784 sectors to 391,300.  Try this
format.dat entry:

 disk_type = "Maxtor LXT-200S" \
	: ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 5 \
	: trks_zone = 1 : atrks = 7 : asect = 1 \
	: ncyl = 1300 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1302 : nhead = 7 : nsect = 43 \
	: rpm = 3600 : bpt = 33920

Barry Lustig
Advanced Decision Systems	barry at ads.com