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From: brian@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au (Brian Marriott)
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Subject: Re: Adding a 3rd party SCSI disk to an rs6000
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Date: 2 Nov 90 05:57:52 GMT
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In <1154@cameron.egr.duke.edu> jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:

>From article <1149@cameron.egr.duke.edu>, by jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger):
>> 
>> I'm trying to figure out how to set up a WREN-VII for my RS6000.  

>Well, I figured out how to add the drive and it was pretty
>straight-forward.  I had been worried about how the 6000 would
>determine the size of the disk, but it seemed to figure it out
>somehow (yes, this is my first SCSI-using machine).  I now have
>a partition with 1019904 KB (987728 free).

How did you go with formatting it?  I'm about to buy one, but the
supplier doesn't have any drivers or formatting software.  Does the
IBM driver do it all OK?

Thanks in advance

Brian Marriott
University of Tasmania (Australia)
brian@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au