SUMMARY: Pinnacle MO drives with 1024 byte/sector disks ?

From: Retter d. Universums (cc_gucky@rcvie.co.at)
Date: Tue Jun 01 1993 - 20:06:22 CDT


Sorry for this late summary -> (hollidays ;-)

Conclusion:
Suns SCSI driver do not support 1024 byte/sector only 512 byte/sector possible !

3rd party driver available.

original question:

inc > Hi list - listeners !
inc >
inc > Has anyone experience mit MO drives from Pinnacle ?
inc > Is it possible to use 1024 byte/sector disks ?
inc > Any format.dat for these disks ?
inc >
inc > Their entry works fine for 512 byte/sector disks, hardware and manual looks
inc > and works fine.
inc >
inc > In the manual their are examples for HP/UX for 512 AND for 1024 byte/sector disks,
inc > but not for SunOS.
inc >
inc > They use SUNs standard SCSI driver, no special driver necessary for this drive.
inc >
inc > kr.
inc > G.Holzer

Thanks to:

Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov

Abie Groberg abie@jts.com
JTS Computer Systems Ltd. { torsqnt | suncan | geac | uunet }!jtsv16!abie
Toronto, Ontario, Canada +1 416 512 8910

Dave Plummer, Dept Medical Physics, UCL Hospitals, London UK

kr.
Gucky

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