Hello everyone,
I have an IBM DDRS-34560 SCSI Hard drive of a capacity ~4.5gig. I need to permanently change the geometry of this device to make it smaller, closer to 450mb. I don't know if this is possible, but I do know that at one point I took a 2gig hard drive and copied it to the 4.5gig hard drive using a CSC Drive duplicator machine and then the 4.5gig hard drive's geometry changed making it appear as a 2gig hard drive. I tried this using the 450mb hard drive on the same drive duplicator and the data moved to the larger drive but the geometry did not. Why is it that it would work going from 4.5gig to 2gig but not from 2gig down to 450mb? This is all a little confusing to me as I am not a SCSI expert by any means. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I have an IBM DDRS-34560 SCSI Hard drive of a capacity ~4.5gig. I need to permanently change the geometry of this device to make it smaller, closer to 450mb. I don't know if this is possible, but I do know that at one point I took a 2gig hard drive and copied it to the 4.5gig hard drive using a CSC Drive duplicator machine and then the 4.5gig hard drive's geometry changed making it appear as a 2gig hard drive. I tried this using the 450mb hard drive on the same drive duplicator and the data moved to the larger drive but the geometry did not. Why is it that it would work going from 4.5gig to 2gig but not from 2gig down to 450mb? This is all a little confusing to me as I am not a SCSI expert by any means. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!