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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Third party hard drives >=600MB ? I'd like to put such a drive in my machine.  I've seen some
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Date: 23 Feb 90 21:03:22 GMT
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I have done such a thing: Wren VI drive, officially up to
701 MB capacity, if low-formatted with 1024byte sectors.
Unforunately it is preformatted with 512 Bytes.
Therefore we only managed to get 630 out of this drive.
If ppl are interested I can post the disktab entries we used.
But they are certainly suboptimal, as we just copied the
Maxtor entries and changed as little as possible.
(e.g formatting results in a warning that not all sectors
in the last cylinder are used and such...)
So the file should be fine-tuned.
We didn't do it yet, as we still hope that someone out there
has a low-level scsi-drive formatter. If there is such a thing
we would highly appreciate if you could tell us about it.
The very idea that there are at least some 60 MBytes unused
:(((

Ronald
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