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matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:

>If anyone's considering buying a Fujitsu 520M internal hard drive for their
>NeXTstation, it'll work just fine.

>It's a 2624F drive.

>It Just Works.  Rory Bolt's formatter app for old Fujitsu's works just fine.
>It gives 516368 K after formatting, 464731 useable for mortal users.  Access
>times are in the 12-17ms range.  It's noticeably faster than my old Fujitsu
>2261.  Disk's 'read' utility reports > 730K/s transfer rates.

Yes, this has gone around a few times.  It should be in the FAQ if
it isn't yet.  One comment though, I DIDN'T use Rory Bolt's formatter
app but used builddisk instead and I get approx. the same amount of usable
space:

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a             490984  395840   46045    90%    /

I will also mention that I did have slight heat problems with this
drive on the INSIDE of the machine (but my office is pretty hot
to begin with...with proper ventilation you'll probably be okay),
and have since moved it out and put the old drive in and put
the Fuji in an external case (although it's still SCSI ID 0).

Tim

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