Date   : Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:29:24 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Hard or Soft Sectored Drives

Andrew Benham wrote:
 > I thought the original query was about hard sectored
 > HARD disks, not floppies ?
 >
 > I've found some references to hard sectored EDSI drives,
 > but not to ST506 ones.

Yes, ST506/416 drives are pretty simple devices, but some controllers 
have fixed ideas about sectors, and some SCSI and SMD drives are 
hard-sectored.

 > Superform issues the "format unit" SCSI command
 > as I recall, rather than formatting tracks or
 > cylinders or sectors.

Ah yes, that's right -- I misremembered.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York