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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SCSI formatter
Message-ID: <5214@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 91 03:31:34 GMT
References: <15616@celit.fps.com>
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <15616@celit.fps.com> rory@fps.com (Thomas (Rory) Bolt) writes:
> Here is a shareware disk formatting program for the NeXT. It was written
> specifically for the Fujitsu M226xS family of drives, but it should work
> with just about any SCSI drive which conforms to the Common Command Set.
> This program currently performs two functions:
> 

This is probably the time to say it publically: DO NOT POST BINARIES
on comp.sys.next, but rather give pointers as to where you can get
the software.  Posting binaries around the WORLD costs LOTS of $$$

2.0 has a scsi disk formatter that is supported by NeXT, it works
quite well.  /etc/disktab entries are not really needed in
2.0 _for most applications_...

Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
Media Laboratory, E15-351, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311
email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)