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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Using Old Drive
Message-ID: <1646@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:09:25 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.204047.23779@macc.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun3.204047.23779@macc.wisc.edu>
	anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>I've heard that the Fujitsu drives are factory formatted at
>512 bytes/sector and that they must be 1024 bytes/sector to
>work in the NeXT.

Fujitsu "SA" drives are formatted at 512 bytes/sector; "SB"
drives are formatted at 1024 bytes/sector.  The hardware is
identical (as should the prices be).  Either will work, but
the 1024 version will give you more storage capacity and
higher performance.  You'll save yourself a lot of grief by
ordering an SB drive... don't count on the third-party
reformatters to do the right thing.

					-=EPS=-