On 2014-01-04 11:59, Robert Jarratt wrote:
So how does it do this when the disk is yet to be
formatted? In other words,
when it formats the disk how does it know what size the disk is?
DEC drives have this information in a special area of the drive.
If for exmaple, the MV2000 finds this blocks, it formats to exactly this
specs. You see this, if you go into the MV2000 diagnostics.
All other drives, you have to enter the specs manually ...