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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders.... Message-ID: <vanepp.759602026@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca (seymour news) Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <wilko.758383770@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2hu69c$1jk@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> <2i2t13$oe3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <hastyCK791s.DHB@netcom.com> <wilko.759574577@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:33:46 GMT Lines: 23 wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: >>>hmmm i've tried scsicntl.exe: 10 points available for changing >>>(headskew, interleave ... AND bytes_per_sector!) but i cant >>>change bytes_per_sector!, my cursor `overjumps' the point for this. >Oops! Blooper on my part. You are right of course. What I finally did >to get my Micropolis from 518 (!) to 512 bytes / sect was connect it >to a DEC Alpha AXP system with OSF/1 on it. The scu tool of OSF/1 >lets you do what you want. >This is probably no option for U :-( I don't remember if I suggested this here (I did somewhere lately), this function is one of the few uses I have found for a Mac (and one of those may be easier to find than an alpha). I needed to do this to get a NeXT disk (formated 1024 bytes/sector) onto a Sun (that didn't like 1024 bytes per sector) If required I can get the name of whatever they used (I believe it was PD). Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada