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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: CDC-Imprimis 766MB drive....
Summary: Question about installation...
Keywords: Harddrives, CDC, Imprimis
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Date: 2 Feb 90 22:53:22 GMT
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Well, after a year-long process I'm finally registered 
developer at NeXT and the machines are ordered. Which means 
after uncountable phone-calls the real problems come up, 
such as:

INSTALLING THE HARDDISK....
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We have CDC-Imprimis Drives with a unformatted capacity of
766 MB (works out to about 668 formatted).
Now has anyone experience how to install these drives in a
NeXT?
Keywords: 
- tables to convert 
- how do I tell the system that it no longer has the 40Mb
  swap drive, as it has to be removed...
- where can I find the relevant parts in the NeXT on- or 
  offline documentation?
- Has anyone a good idea how to partition such a disc?
  e.g. 256MB so that a single partition could be tar-ed
  to a optical, and then be used for copying?
- Did anyone write by now a script or so to backup a big
  filesystem to multiple optical discs?

Any help is greatly appreciated...

Ronald

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