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Re: 9GB drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Willett)
Thu Aug 31 16:30:41 1995
From: willett@coam.usm.edu (Evan Willett)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 9:25:19 CDT
In-Reply-To: <9508301947.AA05896=news@hera-191.cwi.nl>; from "news@cwi.nl" at Aug 30, 95 9:47 pm
>
> : Does anyone here use one of the BIG 9gig drives? We are thinking of
> : getting one for news and would like to know what kind of SCSI cards you
> : are using and also if you manage to get the full 9gig capacity out of
> : them. Thanks.
>
> I have a Micropolis 9.1GB SCSI disk on my Adaptec 1542CF SCSI adapter.
> I get full capacity out of it.
>
I have 9GB seagate, which works fine with the 1542CF, but any SCSI
supported by linux should work.
With fdisk v2.0a, I'm only able to use 8064 cylinders(about 8.3GB) of
the 8669 cylinders. Any ideas on utilizing all of the disk space?
Evan
