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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: hard drive info wanted
Keywords: Hard disk add on's
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Date: 28 Sep 90 23:44:22 GMT
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In article <1990Sep25.234935.1501@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, tgoldtho@ccng.uwaterloo.ca (Thomas A. Goldthorpe) writes:
|> The low level format can be a problem in some cases.  Most drives are already
|> low-level formatted, but the buyer can't be guaranteed of the interleave or
|> if the disk's built in cache has been enabled.  This is where your favorite
|> mac is useful (see I told you a mac was good for something:-)).  Use a
|> program like micronet utility to do this simple job.   The rest is done
|> by the NeXT (thankfully).  Mail me for details.

Most importantly the sector size is almost always set to 512byte/sec instead
of 1024byte/sector. This usually enhances throughput AND capacity of a disk.
A program that does cache enabling and low-level formatting on the NeXT is
available from us. Send mail to this account for more information.
I also should mention, that the Mac programs I know of allow not for a change
in sector size, but only things like caching.

Ronald
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