Micropolis disk formatting help requested

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From: Kevin J. Barth
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:42

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We've got a micropolis 1030 1.3 (unformatted) drive on a NeXTStation
Color Turbo running NeXTStep release 2.2.

I'd like to low-level format it optimally and would greatly appreciate
any advice as to:
- how to do this
- what man pages to read
- what progs to use (some one has said something about 'SCSIFormatter')
- if any 'proto' file exists for this purpose

It will be used as our main file server disk in a heterogenous network of
SUNs and NeXTs, if it makes any difference (although I think that this
aspect of it doesn't pertain to the low-level formatting (?)).


Thanks for any help, cheers - Kevin
kjb@uts.amdahl.com

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From: kjb@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin J. Barth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Micropolis disk formatting help requested
Keywords: disk format nfs
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Date: 11 Sep 92 19:42:11 GMT
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