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- From: scoob@bnr.ca (Christian Marcotte)
- Subject: Re: 400 Meg Hard Disk recommendation ???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.031208.7265@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1993Jan4.024548.10947@bnr.ca> <1993Jan9.011338.24622@siemens.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:12:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.011338.24622@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- >>It is also important that it can be formated on the 3/60
- >>(I have a couple of old scsi drives lying around here and some
- >> won't format on the 3/60).
- >
- >Every SCSI disk that I've ever laid my hands on came pre-formatted. Do you
- >*know* that yours need to be reformatted?
-
- Yes I do !
- I have a nice 200 Meg drive that I had to format on some other
- equipment and two weeks ago it came up with a bad block.
- I fixed the problem and had to reformat only to be reminded that
- my ol sun3 wouldn't format my drive... It's really a drag to have
- to physically take my hard disk out, bring it to work and reformat
- it on some equipment that I'm not too familiar with.
-
- -- Scoob
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