Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!sns!space
From: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2090A speed
Summary: How do I do a hard format?
Message-ID: <183@sns.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 13:06:38 GMT
References: <14015@cisunx.UUCP> <1135@esunix.UUCP> <9472@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
Organization: Stuttgart Net System, FRG
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In article <9472@gryphon.COM> jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) writes:
>I can think of two possible reasons for this lack of whelming performance
>changes while diddling interleave. Note that the "mountlist" interleave
>will make no difference on FFS disks. To effect a change you must hard format
>the drive. A soft format will do zippo.

Could you explain the difference between hard and soft format? I mean, how do
I hard format an SCSI device? Via prep, which does take much longer with an
SCSI HD than with an ST506 HD?
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