> Chuck writes:
>
> If you're really bored you can learn how to do mode page editing on SCSI
> drives yourself. I learned it a couple of years back when I got a boatload
> of Micropolis 1.6Gig drives that had been set for 520-byte sectors and
> wanted to use them in a more "normal" 512-byte mode. Since then the
> skill has come in handy to connect modern, fast, and "large" (i.e. 9
> Gbytes or larger) SCSI drives onto systems that don't deal with drives
> that large. Just go in, edit the disk capacity mode page, and you've
> got a smaller than 1 Gig drive that never has to seek very far :-).
>
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Gee. I could've done that for the VaxStation.
I didn't think of that idea.
Bill
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Received on Thu May 04 2000 - 15:59:37 BST