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Article #1480Re: any advice on Seagate hard disks with a NeXT?
From: Richard Tilley
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:55
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:55
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In <1993Jan20.144630.16352@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky) writes: >In general reformatting a disk from the default sector size (512) to 1024 >B/sector will increase the available raw disk space to appr. 105% of the 512 >capacity. >For example in my cube is a seagate st42400n which has a raw capacity of >203x MB (512B/sec) and a formatted capacity (df) >/dev/sd1a 1729424 474633 1081848 30% /disk1 >after reformatting the drive to 1024 the raw capacity is 2175 MB and the >formatted capacity (df) is now > 2138695 This looks like 24%. The raw increase looks like 7%. Did you reduce the number of spare sectors to get that 24%? -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!tilley From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Subject: Re: any advice on Seagate hard disks with a NeXT? Message-ID: <C18twp.4Is@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1j6mfsINNhg6@menudo.uh.edu> <1993Jan20.144630.16352@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:55:36 GMT Lines: 24