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From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
Subject: SyQuest SQ3270S for Data Exchange?
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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 01:29:02 GMT
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Hi,
I would like to use my SyQuest SQ3270S, i.e. the cartridges,
for exchanging data. Sounds natural but what happens if
different SCSI controllers in the different computers are
using different heads/sectors translation schemes (e.g.
Adaptec controllers make every SCSI disk to appear to have
64 heads and 32 sectors, but not all SCSI controllers
do the same) and this information is stored in any way in
the respective partition when it's formatted?

Even DOS stores the number of heads
and sectors in the "boot" sector of the respective
partition. Does this cause any problems when using the
cartridges in different computers?

What about the BSD file system of NeXTSTEP? Is exchanging
cartridges possible?

What about the Linux file system?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas
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