SUMMARY: Format.dat entry for Seagate ST15150N

From: Mike Monts (monts@caere.com)
Date: Tue Aug 15 1995 - 09:44:22 CDT


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On Friday August 11:

   I am in need of a format.dat entry for a 4Gb Seagate ST15150N drive for
   SunOS 4.1.3_U1. Any help would be deeply appreciated. TIA!

I received responses from:

Richard Sullivan
David Young
Rich Billingsley
William Charles
ballisti@ifh.ee.ethz.ch
Gadi Friedman
Geping Wang

Thank you all! -- Mike
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From: gadi@hynet.co.il (Gadi Friedman)
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To: monts@caere.com
Subject: Re: Format.dat entry for Seagate ST15150N
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> I am in need of a format.dat entry for a 4Gb Seagate ST15150N drive for
> SunOS 4.1.3_U1. Any help would be deeply appreciated. TIA!
>

I just did this last week. This entry was generated automatically using
scsiinfo -F

Gadi ---------------------------------------------------------------------

disk_type = "SEAGATE ST15150N" \
        : ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 9 \
        : trks_zone = 21 : asect = 9 \
        : ncyl = 3696 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 3712 : nhead = 21 : nsect = 108 \
        : rpm = 7200 : bpt = 63504

partition = "SEAGATE ST15150N"
        : disk = "SEAGATE ST15150N" : ctlr = SCSI : c = 0, 8382528
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From: William Charles <william.charles@sbil.co.uk>
To: Mike Monts <monts@caere.com>
Subject: Re: Format.dat entry for Seagate ST15150N
Organization: Salomon Brothers, London
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On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Mike Monts wrote:

> I am in need of a format.dat entry for a 4Gb Seagate ST15150N drive for
> SunOS 4.1.3_U1. Any help would be deeply appreciated. TIA!

Sun hardware has serious problems driving these 4GByte Barracuda -- if you put
a filesystem right to the end of the disk the `fsck' fails!

I use this `format.dat'...

disk_type = "SEAGATE ST15150N" \
        : ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 9 \
        : trks_zone = 21 : asect = 9 \
        : ncyl = 3695 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 3712 : nhead = 21 : nsect = 108 \
        : rpm = 7200 : bpt = 63504

This was auto-generated by `scsiinfo -p'. The `ncyl' should be 3696, but it
didn't work properly. This seems to work 99% of the time!

Will.

William Charles ------------------------------------------------- Unix Systems
Administrator Salomon Brothers International Limited
william.charles@sbil.co.uk ---------------------------------------------

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This is what we use:

search_path = xd0, xd1, xd2, xd3, xd4, xd5, xd6, xd7, xd8, xd9, xd10, xd11, \
                xd12, xd13, xd14, xd15, xy[0-3], sd[0-7], sd8, sd9, sd1[0-9], \
                sd20, id0[0-4][0-7]

disk_type = "Seagate ST15150N" \
        : ctlr = MD21 : trks_zone = 21 : asect = 9 : atrks =21 \
        : ncyl = 3696 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 3698: nhead = 21 : nsect = 108 \
        : rpm = 7200 :bpt = 60000
#
partition = "Seagate ST15150N" \
        : disk = "Seagate ST15150N" : ctlr = MD21 \
        : a = 0, 1 : b = 1, 206388 : c = 0, 8382528 \
        : g = 92, 8173872

Then there is always scsiinfo ...

-- 
David Young    - Eaton Corp. -    dwy%etnibsd@uunet.uu.net
		 Beverly Ma
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You have to buy a specific driver to inialize that drive.  As far as I know there is only one 
company in United States that develope and sells that driver:

MDL Corporation 15301 NE 90th St. Redmond, WA 98052

sales@mdlcorp.com

I hope this helps.

Thanks

Rich Billingsley ============================================================================== Hallo Mike

Here is my entry in /etc/format.dat

disk_type = "ST15150N" \ : ctlr = SCSI \ : ncyl = 5704 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 5706 : nhead = 21 : nsect = 70 \ : rpm = 7200 : bpt = 35480

#

Ciao Ray



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