GHISLAIN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ghislain J. ROY) (06/27/91)
Hello netters, I have recently acquired a Micropolis 760M drive and I wonder if
I should reformat the drive to optimize it or leave it alone. I get 636M at
boot time for the capacity and here is additional info:
apnext1# scsimodes /dev/rsd1a
SCSI information for /dev/rsd1a
Drive type: MICROP 1588-15MB1039605
512 bytes per sector
54 sectors per track
15 tracks per cylinder
1632 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
8 spare sectors per cylinder
45 alternate tracks per volume
1304051 usable sectors on volume
apnext1#
apnext1# disk /dev/rsd1a
disk name: MICROP 1588-15MB1039605
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
Disk utility
disk> read
starting block? 0
# sectors per transfer? 16
number of transfers? 1000
sector increment? 16
16384000 bytes in 14548 ms = 1126822 bytes/s
disk> quit
apnext1#
I'd love to up the capacity to 660M but would that mean a loss in speed?
Any help and pointers to possible tools to do the job are appreciated.
Please email me and I'll sumarize if need be. Thanks in advance.
-Ghislain
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