I have an old something-clone SCSI controller on one of my machines that
seems to recognize about everything. It has utilities to operate from
MS-DOs [D[D[DS. I have been able to re-format a number of drives that were called
"worthless", having been used for various high-speed imiging[D[D[D[D[Dageing [D[D[D[D[Ding direct-write
machines. They had "sector-sizes" of 820 bytes as I recall. After the
low-level format in which I used the default interleave and zeroe[D-ed[D[D[Ded-out
the format configuration bytes, the drives all reverted to 512 bytes
per sector and a zillion sectors (ther w[D[D[Dy were 5.2 db[D[Dgb drives).
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
rjohnson@analogic.com