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From: jesup@pawl13.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Disks for A2000.
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Date: 21 Apr 88 05:48:47 GMT
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In article <668@wolf.UUCP> uzun@wolf.SanDiego.NCR.COM (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>1) Pacific Peripherals card allows each and every partition to be
>   FFS format, A2090 does not.

	Afraid that's wrong.  If you set up a SCSI disk as unit 0, then it
automounts the first partition of the drive.  If you set it up as SCSI unit 1
or higher, it doesn't automount, so you can use FFS on the whole disk.  For
st506 disks, you are right, however.

>3) Diskperf with the Old File system showed Pac Peripheral card to
>   be faster.

	What conditions?  In particular, same drive, exact same files on
the drives, and in the same places (i.e. unfragmented at start of test, with
the same amount of data)?  Inquiring minds want to know... :-)

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