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From: mattioli@TOOK.DEC.COM (John R. Mattioli)
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Subject: Re: IBM/SCSI
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Date: 8 Nov 89 21:09:02 GMT
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In article <20406@ut-emx.UUCP>, allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred) writes...
> 
>You're not in as bad a shape as you think.  What you need to do is
>backup all the information you have put on you hard disk, and do a low
>level format using Diskmanager in manual mode. (/m switch I believe).
>Select the format menu. If you are running on a 286 or 386 of at least
>8+ Mhz you should find the optimal format to be a 2:1 interleve.
>

	Well, I've got a bit of a problem with this.  You see, my vendor (Micro
Express) did a low level format of my drive before they sent it to me.  I'm sure
they did this to test the drive.  Unfortunately, they didn't send me a floppy
"with Segate's software on it.  They said they'd send it to me, but that was
nearly two weeks ago.  I still haven't received it. 

	Is there someone out there who could mail it to me?  I know that kinda
goes against the copyright, but the software's useless without the hardware so I
suspect that's not such a big deal.  After all, I was supposed to get the
software in the first place. 

	Please help me out?  I need to evaluate the difference in speed quickly
while I still have a money-back guarantee. 

>Now a word to the wise...
> 
>Memory is cheap again; so adding 1MB of RAM to your system to
>dedicate to disk caching or RAM disk is going to be much cheaper, and
>give you much more performance for you money, than a more expensive
>disk and controller.  If you get a high cache hit rate, the actual
>speed of the media is not very important.
> 
	I agree as far as dos goes, but I want to run unix.  I assume I can't do
anything like this under unix. 
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