Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Merits of DOS vs NeXT SCSI HD Formats ? Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 03:19:07 GMT References: <1991Mar8.083953.11933@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Mar8.104541.8592@wam.umd.edu> <13239@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: texnext.gac.edu In-reply-to: isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU's message of 9 Mar 91 20:15:33 GMTLines: 29 In article <13239@darkstar.ucsc.edu> isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell) writes: The nice UPS man delivered IMPROV to my door yesterday, but I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't load it (or confirm the floppy format). The floppies are the requisite black and appear to have CH as the brand identification with "DOUBLE SIDED 2A3103P" as the only other printing on the diskette. The Lotus diskette label says "For computers from NeXT Computer, Inc." and their "Getting Started" manual says that one must "have a 3.5 in. NeXT compatible diskette drive". None of this indicates to me that these are necessarily 2.88 MB diskettes or are formatted to 2.88 MB. The sizes of the disks I got seemed to indicate that they were 1.44M formatted. Well, unless the 2.88M format takes up 55% overhead, or something! The CH insignia on there also looks suspiciously like some disks I saw someone bandying around up here the other day. Since I know that they weren't 2.88M (they only formatted to 1.44M), this indicates that the disks are formatted to 1.44M. The problem is whether they are DOS formatted or Unix formatted. Since they mounted as something like "Improv Disk #1", I think they're Unix formatted. [Don't DOS-format disks mount as "DOS"?] Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."