pvo3366@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) (12/24/89)
In article <6094@gssc.UUCP> jdm@gssc.UUCP (John David Miller) writes: >i'm told that the CDC Wren V SCSI disks "just work" on the NeXT. the unit >we are buying has been configured with a CDC Wren V 94181-640, 640 Mb >unformatted. these can be had for about $3000, ............. > ^^^^^ Last week I bought a Wren V 94181-702 (702MB unformatted) for $2015. (Two-thousand fifteen and no/100 dollars :-) ----------------------------------- I searched the archive sites for a disktab file for this disk and was surprised not to find any disktab files for any 3rd party disks. Come on, folks, share your progress with us. Has anyone-who-knows-what-they're-doing written a disktab file for a 94181-702? I'll do one and post it if necessary, but frontporch, backporch, etc. are magic and even #cyl and #sectors are just good-guesses-and-fiddling for these smart drives that have more sectors on the outside tracks than the inside tracks. Is there a formatting program on the cube? Can one change spare-sector management by formatting on a Sun and then still use the disk on a NeXT? The OEM manual for the Wren V implies that the factory formatting has *no* spare sector allotments. Can anyone verify this? Why does the newfs() man page state: -S sector-size The size of a sector in bytes (almost never any- thing but 512). when over 1/2 of the distributed distab entries are 1024 bytes/sector? ----------------------------------- Why isn't anyone (that I've seen) doing traditional Unix partitioning of their SCSI drives. Even large drives have only 1 or 2 big partitions. Does mach not benefit from partition management? Or are the NeXT's just too new for there to be any collective wisdom on what reasonable partition sizes are? Thanks, experts, from a bumbling newcomer to the fold. Paul O'Neill pvo@oce.orst.edu Coastal Imaging Lab OSU--Oceanography Corvallis, OR 97331 503-754-3251