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- From: paul@dvorak.cis.nctu.edu.tw (Paul W. Shew)
- Subject: Re: URGENT! format.dat for MICROP 1598, please!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.145434.10830@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
- Keywords: format.dat
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- Organization: National Chiao Tung University
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:54:34 GMT
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- |> My earlier post might have problem. Well, I've got a Micropolis 1.2G hard disk
- |> (1598-15MD) which I am installing to my SUN IPC. I need the format.dat for the
- |> disk urgently. Thanks ...
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- Thanks to all who have sent me the information. Anyway, I've discovered that
- the "format" utility reads the disk geometry from the disk controller. As
- this intelligent drive supplies the necessary information, we don't really
- need the format.dat! In fact, from my experience, taking the default values
- suggested by "format" gives the optimal disk space utilization.
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