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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: hard drive info wanted
Keywords: Hard disk add on's
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Date: 8 Oct 90 19:17:00 GMT
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In article <1990Oct1.044754.21637@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tgoldtho@ccng.uwaterloo.ca (Thomas A. Goldthorpe) writes:
>In article <51560@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
>>
>>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.
>I wouldn't trust your program for now, however.  Until
>NeXT officially releases info on what to do for third party products, the
>program might be broken without you even knowing it. 

To use a drive you don't need NeXT's info, you need just a standard
SCSI driver that NeXT supplies and and info on the drive. The fact
that we use our own product gives me enough trust...

>You also don't seem
>to mention the problem with /etc/disktab and the 512/1024 byte sector
>problem.  Such stuff also needs fixing first. 

There is no such thing as a 512/1024 byte sector 'problem'. Neither is
there a disktab 'problem'. Of course you should reformat your drive
and of course you need a correct disktab entry, but that's why you
want to use a tool like TheFormatter or get some disks that are
preformatted using such a tool. We supply people with the disktab
entries they need and we also tell them clearly which parameters to
use when low-level formatting the drive. So please WHERE is the problem? 

So who want's it least complicated and has a budget to pay for it
should go for NeXT's stuff. But there are a lot of people that can't
afford the configuration they need when buying from NeXT. And these
better look for a solution like the one we supply. If they want the
drives preformatted, they can also call 1-800-cube-rte. The people
there sell preformatted drives for the NeXT.

Ronald
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