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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:19531 comp.os.386bsd.questions:9834 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 6% UNIX overhead on SCSI disk? Date: 20 Apr 1994 18:59:32 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 16 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Apr20145932@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <FEN.94Apr13121431@imagine.comedia.com> <766339489snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <2on4jc$pfo@news.icaen.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu's message of 15 Apr 1994 22:31:08 GMT In article <2on4jc$pfo@news.icaen.uiowa.edu> dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes: If you format it with 1024 byte sectors (which you can't do on cheesy PC hardware) you get about 1310M! There is currently no supplied utility to do it, but if you manage to format the disk that way, the 1024-byte sectors should work fine with NetBSD-current. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.