Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:44:00 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester unit

In article <Marcel-1.53-0705205849-b49xSBG@...>, Johan
Heuseveldt <johan@...> writes

>Why? Because SCSI drives won't allow a low level format,

oh yes they do!  The command's called Format Unit.

> and there is
>no way to use a logical model of 256 bytes sector on top of the physical
>512 bytes per sectors /in/ the drive.

Yes, there is.  Providing the drive's firmware doesn't make assumptions
and will allow a sector size of 256 to be set.

The drives Acorn used in the FileStore E01S (there were, IIRC, E20S and
E40S external disk units) were Rodime SCSI drives.

> 1: Try to find the Seagate SCSI drive: ST157N (the 'N' is vital!)

The N is Seagate's way of indicating the drive is SCSI.

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