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From: bedney@monolith.lanl.gov (William J. Edney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.1 BuildDisk
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Date: 11 Jun 91 15:53:04 GMT
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In article <1696@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> In article <25377@lanl.gov> bedney@monolith.lanl.gov (William J. Edney)  
writes:
> >                                       As I moved the slider, it subtracted  
> >bytes from one partition and added them to the other. What a great idea. If  
> >your SCSI drive supports the MODE_SENSE command, you don't need those  
disktabs  
> >any more (unless you want 3 or more partitions)!!
> 
> Not entirely true.  Unless you are absolutely 100% satisfied with
> the default setup (I sure wasn't!), you'll still want disktab
> entries.  NeXT needs to do quite a bit more work in this area...
> 
> 					-=EPS=-

Eric -
What other optimization is needed? I mean, if my hard disk says it has 989MB to  
give me, and 2.1 BuildDisk goes out there and formats 989MB, what's the  
difference between that and writing my own disktab??
Educate me, please.
--
- Bill Edney
- Los Alamos National Laboratory

"I don't speak for my employer and they don't speak for me. Kind of a nice  
arrangement."