>MKFS failed in what way?  What was the error message like?

Most of the disk information was set blank on default, except
Sector Size=0, Sector/Track=40, Tracks/cylinder=0, Num cylinders=0, 
and File System Size=(partition size /512).  I also re-set sector size to
512, but I cannot format.

The error messages are

        Bytes_sector is 0
        Sectors Trak is 0
        Wild Ass Guess at sect/track
        Partition read, SCSIID=5
        optimization space
        formatting......
           no default #tracks

I don't know what values set in each parameters.  (All parameters
should not be set, I wonder, because most of them are blank when I
format other hard disks.)

>(I suspect that the PD drives are popular only in Japan... at least I
>don't remember seeing any ad of it in the US)

Funny!  I bought it from _USA_!  (It was the way to get PD drives more
chieaper than buying in Japan.  Sigh.)

Mamoru Yamanishi
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