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From: andrewd@cs.tamu.edu (Andrew Ted Duchowski)
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Subject: Re: SCSI formatter
Summary: word of warning
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Date: 13 Feb 91 08:51:41 GMT
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In article <1991Feb13.080850.2311@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> [...]
>>> In article <5214@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>  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
>
>2.0's /usr/etc/sdform, I don't think, will allow you to
>change "bytes/sector" parameter of SCSI disks.  Rory's
>formatter claims to be able to do this.  Going from 512 bytes/sector
>to 1024 bytes/sector will give you additional 40MB or so of
>storage.  For this function alone, his program is worth it.
>The doc says it does more.
>
> [...rest deleted...]

I tried the program, but was a little apprehensive about actually
letting it format my 2263sa drive.  In the technical manual from
Fujitsu it says that the 2263sa revision in particular has a 
maximum configuration of 512 bytes/sector.  Rory doesn't specify
what revision his drive is.  I'd advise a bit of warning before
going against the manual's limits.

I finally got my 2263sa configured into two partitions, 300 and 
371 Mb.  It seems to be working well.  It fits nicely into the 
cube underneath the 105 Quantum and they seem to be co-existing 
nicely.

Andrew
andrewd@cs.tamu.edu

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