From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 17:13:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA17804 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA17787 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA27763 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:13:44 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA12079; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:04:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970418020445.SU49564@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:04:45 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: optical drives References: <199704171722.DAA06579@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704171722.DAA06579@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Apr 18, 1997 03:22:08 +1000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > [This should be discussed in a technical mailing list, not -hackers.] You mean, like -chat? :-) > >> (ahc0:1:0): "IBM MTA-3230TC2210!B 0" type 0 removable SCSI 2 > >> sd1(ahc0:1:0): Direct-Access 217MB (446325 512 byte sectors) > >> sd1(ahc0:1:0): with 17934 cyls, 1 heads, and an average 24 sectors/track > > A very tall drive :-). Nope, why? MOs are indeed one head any many many cylinders. My 650 (actually 280, per side) MB medium claims about 18000 cylinders with 31 sectors per track. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)