Hard drive with 504 bytes per sector.

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When wanting to put another hard drive into a Panasonic Hard disk recorder
and failing, I tried to mount the old Samsung sv0802n on my pc, it wouldn't
be recognized by bios.
Using a hard disk info program I discovered it had a reported 504 bytes per
sector and 34902 bytes per track. This is probably why it couldn't be seen
by bios.
I somehow need to change the seagate st380011a to match the samsung.
Is there a low level program for dos or windows that can do this?

Regards,
John.

 

[Zvi Netiv]

When wanting to put another hard drive into a Panasonic Hard disk recorder
and failing, I tried to mount the old Samsung sv0802n on my pc, it wouldn't
be recognized by bios.
Using a hard disk info program I discovered it had a reported 504 bytes per
sector and 34902 bytes per track. This is probably why it couldn't be seen
by bios.

Where exactly did you see the "bytes per sector" parameter? AFAIK, that
parameter isn't configurable, it's fixed to 512 byte/sector. What program did
you use?

Regards

 

[Arno Wagner]

When wanting to put another hard drive into a Panasonic Hard disk recorder
and failing, I tried to mount the old Samsung sv0802n on my pc, it wouldn't
be recognized by bios.
Using a hard disk info program I discovered it had a reported 504 bytes per
sector and 34902 bytes per track. This is probably why it couldn't be seen
by bios.
I somehow need to change the seagate st380011a to match the samsung.
Is there a low level program for dos or windows that can do this?

If your number is correct, then there is nothing you can do. All
standard drives have 512 Bytes/Sector. This one must have a modified
firmware.

34902 is not divisible by 504, which is strange.

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

If your number is correct, then there is nothing you can do.

Probably. No ATA commands to change it, AFAICT.

All standard drives have 512 Bytes/Sector.

Not necessarily with SCSI, And not necessarily with ATA-CE drives
(for Consumer Electronics equipment such as Hard disk recorders).

This one must have a modified firmware.

Or just the latest firmware that supports some of the new Long/Large
Sector features in ATA-7/8.

34902 is not divisible by 504, which is strange.

He most likely meant sectors. No point in listing bytes per track.