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Date: 14 JUL 89 23:33-
From: Achim Patzner <PATZNER@DBNINF5.Bitnet>
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Subject: Seagate HDs/Dr. Ken

Date: 14-JUL-1989 23:17:09.36
From: Achim Patzner <PATZNER@DBNINF5>
To:   0::"info-apple@brl.mil"
Subj: Seagate HDs/Dr. Ken

1) Seagate's harddisks need that long time (about 30 seconds)
   to come up because they are doing an extensive self-test...
   Not the worst way to spend their time.

2) I think the best way of formatting a harddisk is FIRST finding
   out the optimum interleave factor for the drive (e.g. by using
   Disk Timer (can be obtained from Apple2-L)), formatting it with
   a program that enables you to choose the interleave factor
   (Apple2-L again; I can't remember the exact name now),
   partitioning it with the SCSI utilities disk (because low
   level formatting doesn't install a partition map and ADU
   would reformat the drive without it) and THEN partition it again
   with ADU. That can take some time, but it's worth it.

Achim Patzner