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From: ba@m-net.UUCP (Bill Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: URGENT hard disk questions.
Message-ID: <2655@m2-net.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 88 03:54:25 GMT
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Reply-To: ba@m-net.UUCP (Bill Allen)
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I have a StarDrive scsi board inside my Microbotics
StarBoard II and an external 65meg Seagate ST277N scsi hard
drive.  I am seei,ng countless postings about the settings I
should be using in my devs:mountlist for Handler, Priority,
StackSize, Device, Unit, Flags, Surfaces, BlocksPerTrack,
Reserved, Interleave, LowCyl, HighCyl, Buffers, BufMemType,
FileSystem, DosType.  Rather than post another handful of
choices, who can tell us *WHAT* each of these do and how *I*
determine the "correct" values.  Which are determined by
your hardware?  Which can be varied by the user and which
*MUST* be set to a certain value?  Must a drive that has n
Surfaces have Surfaces set to n?  Or can this be configured
differently by the user?  As for the others....

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