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From: peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy)
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Subject: [aus.sun-works...] Formatting CDC Wren drives
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Date: 6 Mar 90 04:11:12 GMT
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Original-posting-by: peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy)
Original-subject: Formatting CDC Wren drives
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

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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