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Re: Buslogic BT946C/Seagate 15150N geometry troubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Pepers)
Wed Aug 16 03:52:25 1995
From: pepersb@cuug.ab.ca (Brad Pepers)
To: lnz@dandelion.com (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:38:22 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: jered@vorlon.mit.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508150728.AAA00577@dandelion.com> from "Leonard N. Zubkoff" at Aug 15, 95 00:28:49 am
> From: jered@vorlon.mit.edu
> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:53:11 -0400
>
> Has anyone successfully configured the Seagate Barracuda 15150N 4 GB SCSI
> hard drive with the BusLogic 946C? Under DOS, I can see the whole hard
> drive with the BTfdisk program, but fdisk for Linux complains that I need
> to set the number of heads, and I can't get the DOS fdisk to tell me
> how many heads/cyl/sectors it thinks the drive has. Does anyone have the
> correct numbers for this drive?
You can use Microsloths MSD program that I think comes with Windoze. It
will tell you the heads/cyls/sectors of all your partitions and for the
whole hard drive.
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