🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, I called up last night and ordered a gig drive, the HP
97549TF S2.

It's SCSI 2 drive (I hope the NeXT accepts it...), not very fast,
not very quiet, but the one I wanted was sold out (HP 97558), and
I can't wait many more weeks for a disk.  Besides, this one was
even cheaper (about $1200) so I can't complain.

What I would like, before it arrives, are disktab/builddisk
scripts/parameters.  Although I have on one occassion worked a
bit of black disktab magic, it was long ago, and I've never
worked with a disk this big, so I'm not sure what the ideal
partition configuration would be.  I'm sure there are many of
you who are dying to let me know The Right Way to do this (tm)  ;-)

If anyone know which formatting program will work (The Formatter?),
if the disk  has a cache and how I can enable it, or other tips I would
appreciate hearing them, via e-mail.  Maybe I'll even write a
HP-recipie for the archives when I'm done...

The disk will be sitting in  a cube at home, with only a couple
of users, but lots of software.  It will possibly be set up as
a local archive resource, or user group resource (this is my
personal machine).

The disk's formatted capacity is 1000MB, 17ms access.

As always, thanks for the help.

Regards,
Thor-Lee Legvold
NorNeXT user group leader
University of Bergen
Norway
edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail O.K.)
edmtl@alf.uib.no (did you hit 'r'???  Then use ASCII mail...)