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From: izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SCSI formatter
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.080850.2311@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 08:08:50 GMT
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In article <5214@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> 
  news@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Remote news user) writes:
>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

>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_...

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.
Automatic generation /etc/disktab entry is also a great feature.
It is still needed under 2.0 if you want to partition a drive into
multiple parts.

Besides, paying $15 and sending in a floppy in SASE will
give you sources to the program.  Whatever support NeXT can
give you on /usr/etc/sdform can't possibly match that.
Man pages for sdform doesn't tell you anything.

As soon as I try out his program on my M2263SA, I intend to
register.

I am very grateful that Rory Bolt took time to write that
program.

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