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From: rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com (Rex Fowler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: Conner 1G SCSI geometry
Date: 9 Dec 1995 14:18:40 -0000
Organization: Manufacturing Technology Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas
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In article <andrew-0912951906220001@dslip2.cc.utas.edu.au>,
Andrew <andrew@elysium.clare.tased.edu.au> wrote:
 
>The geometry printed on the drive is 3658/6/66-120
>(Cylinders/Heads/Sectors) and the geometry that the Tech. Support line of
>the suppliers gave me was 2794/8/72-114. 

Use the values that are shown when you boot from floppy.  It
should show the translated values as ???/64/32

>Thanks for any help,
>Andrew
>andrew@elysium.clare.tased.edu.au#@#@#@# (thank goodness for a third email


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