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From: SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Maxtor SCSI problems: SOLVED - SORT OF
Message-ID: <90347.153706SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:37:06 GMT
References: <1990Dec8.224738.21815@wam.umd.edu>
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In article <1990Dec9.032747.6299@agate.berkeley.edu>,
izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) says:
> [text deleted]
>In any case, if you intend to order Maxtor drives from a 3-rd party
>vendor, ask the vendor to ship a drive for Sun machines, not the one
>for Macs.
>I bought a stock Maxtor XT-8760S from a 3-rd party vendor this way,
>and didn't fortunately have any problem installing in a Cube.
>The drive, though, came formatted with 512-byte sectors, so
>I lost a bit of space for that.
>
>Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu

Isn't there a formatting program around for these Maxtor
drives so you can get the 1024-byte sectors?

Sal.
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