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From: peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy)
Newsgroups: aus.sun-works,comp.periphs
Subject: Formatting CDC Wren drives
Message-ID: <818@stca77.stc.oz>
Date: 1 Mar 90 22:54:30 GMT
Reply-To: peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy)
Organization: Alcatel STC Australia, Alexandria
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Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are those of the author only

Does anyone know how to format a CDC Wren IV or Wren V drive under SunOS
with other than 512 byte sectors?  From my reading of the Wren IV manual,
you gain ~10% space by using 1K sectors (and possible still more with
2K, 4K or 8K sectors).  I can't find anything in any of the Sun manuals
describing this, but believe it should be possible.

Can anyone provide suitable format.dat entries for the Wren V using 512
byte sectors (and if possible, for both the Wren IV and Wren V with other
sector sizes).
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