[iyonix-support] Re: Please help -- formatting a new HD
- From: Ron <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:09:37 +1300
In message <a16d6bb04e.jacorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
James K White <jacorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Had a go at 'OTHER' drive type with default settings:
> LBA flag 1
> Heads 16
> Sectors 231
> Cylinders 84573
> Drive parm 1
> Parking cyl 84572
> No more changes
>
> Before progressing further, could you please tell me if these last OTHER
> settings are valid?
Multiply heads x sectors x cylinders x 512 (bytes/sector) and it comes
to around 160Gb, so yes probably valid.
> One more question - how do you work out the capacity from the numbers of eg.
> the cylinders; and armed with the right calculations, could I then have
> reduced the 160GB to 128GB by myself on the Iyonix? ie. would !HForm accept
> capacities over 128GB?
Initialise with Cylinders set at 67640 gives 127.9 Gb.
There will be a more exact allowable limit based on the base2 addressing
capability though.
Cheers Ron
>
> James
> Mallorca
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