My original question was :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm in trouble with a DEC DSP5400 4 GB SCSI-disk. I believe this was one
> of the first 4 GB SCSI disks on the market, about 1.5 to 2 years ago. I have
> to reformat the disk due to multiple READ/WRITE block errors (too many to
> do a 'repair').
>
> However, I seem to have lost my format.dat entry (I've probably lost it
> due to an update of the OS system). Neither the reseller nor Digital are
> very responsive to my question. Can anybody help me with this please
> ?
>
> Forever yours,
I've gotten many replies, as usual.
First of all, several people sent the part of their /etc/format.dat file
concering this disk :
> disk_type = "FALCON 4.0GB DSP5400"\
> : ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 6\
> : ncyl = 3064 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 3066 : nhead = 26 : nsect = 98\
> : rpm = 5400 : bpt = 59400
>
> partition = "FALCON 4.0GB DSP5400" \
> : disk = "FALCON 4.0GB DSP5400" : ctlr = SCSI\
> : a = 0, 40768 : b = 16, 78988 : c = 0, 7807072 : g = 47, 3844932\
>
: h = 1556, 3842384
Secondly, several people pointed out that the the "scsiinfo" command can
generate this kind of information since version 3.0 . This turns out to
work very well. As indicated in the man-page of scsiinfo, their may be
slight differences, though (for instance, the bpt entry is an estimate).
Check an Archie-server for "scsiinfo".
Many thanks to :
Jos van Wezel (wezel@bio.vu.nl)
George L Roman (george@dbms.com)
Kevin Inscoe (kpi@hobbes.crc.com)
Gert de Jager (gert@elbit.co.il)
David Mitchell (D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
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