12 Apr
2015
12 Apr
'15
5:05 p.m.
On 04/12/2015 02:15 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
On 4/12/15 9:05 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Rats :( Off-the-wall thought, but would it be possible to go poking around
in the formatter program with a hex editor? The parameters for the drives
that are supported may be in a format which you could locate and
reverse-engineer, and then you could tweak one of the entries to match one
of your drives. I know nothing about SMD though, so maybe it's much more
complex than the kind of data that would normally be needed for a
ST506/412-type drive.
cheers
Jules
On 04/12/2015 02:35 AM, Josh Dersch wrote:
The thought had crossed my mind; the problem is that the large drives I
have have fewer cylinders than the ones in that list -- 700-something vs
800+, so the drives format fine up until the last cylinder is reached... I have a few other SMD drives (just picked
'em up today, in fact) but
they're newer (~825mb) and the Ridge disc utilities only support a small
subset of drives (they do not support providing custom geometries, because
that would be *too easy*.)
Can you "under format" an SMD drive? i.e. if you have a drive with equal
or greater cylinders and heads will it automagically work at a lower
capacity that's supported by your formatter?
cheers
Jules