#Help setup Quantum Q280
15-May-88 21:34:05
Sb: #124655-#Help setup Quantum Q280
Fm: George Graves 76657,1112
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
That's the ticket. But instead of 17 blocks per track, this thing gets 19. I
don't have any info on the drive but info shows 82326 blocks in use and 16662
blocks free on the device for a total of 98988. Two blocks are reserved at
the beginning of the disk for a total of 98990. Dividing by 521 cylinders in
this partition gives 190 blocks per cylinder. Your figure of 10 surfaces is
a good guess, but rather than the more usual 17 blocks per track, there are
19 on this drive. I set up a new MountList with this information and it just
formatted properly. By the way, these drives are available from a firm in OH
for about $600 which is a great price for an 80 meg SCSI. Much quieter than
the old Seagate. Thanks for your assistance. 73… George