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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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Subject: IT'S A CONSPIRACY (SCSI FORMATTING)
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Date: 10 Aug 90 22:14:00 GMT
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The penultimate word in my saga.

I just remembered that my son had a MacSE sitting in the next room
(until he goes back to college next week)

Soooo, I plugged my new CMS 60 Meg drive into his computer and used the
MACINTOSH utilities that came with it to reformat it to 1:1.  Worked
like a charm.  No "error 21".

Performance:  1.92 ms per block linear read.  roughly as good as any
others in the InCider July article.  6 (count them, SIX) times better
than when I received it from the mail order dealer (Quality Computers)
who claims to know what they are doing.

Two questions:

a) WHY didn't QC do it right (they knew I had a GS and had bought the HS
SCSI DMA interface, and

b) WHY doesn't there seem to be a SINGLE formatting utility available
for that combination that will get the interleave right?

sure, not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but ...

TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil