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From: jim@mcvax.UUCP (Jim McKie)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Formatting Fujitsu Eagles under 4.2 BSD Unix
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 22:56:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 22:56:08 1985
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In article <232@resonex.UUCP> nancy@resonex.UUCP (Nancy Blachman) writes:
    .......... I have tried formatting disks with the Unix 4.2 format 
    routine.  It took me 13 hours on a 400 mbyte disk.  I have also 
    formatted Eagles using the Emulex format routine which takes 2 1/2 
    hours..............................................................

It's a few weeks since I did an Eagle (but another 6 should arrive in
a couple of weeks. I estimate 3 to 4 hours to format them all under
the 4.2BSD format. But we don't do 'severe burn in', just 'worst-case
media-test'. The disks have been happy with it so far (9 of them).

You didn't say which bus/controller/cpu you're using, but these figures
are for Vax 11/750 with Emulex SC750.

--jim