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- From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
- Subject: Re: any advice on Seagate hard disks with a NeXT?
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- References: <1j6mfsINNhg6@menudo.uh.edu> <1993Jan20.144630.16352@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:55:36 GMT
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- In <1993Jan20.144630.16352@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky) writes:
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- >In general reformatting a disk from the default sector size (512) to 1024
- >B/sector will increase the available raw disk space to appr. 105% of the 512
- >capacity.
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- >For example in my cube is a seagate st42400n which has a raw capacity of
- >203x MB (512B/sec) and a formatted capacity (df)
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- >/dev/sd1a 1729424 474633 1081848 30% /disk1
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- >after reformatting the drive to 1024 the raw capacity is 2175 MB and the
- >formatted capacity (df) is now
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- > 2138695
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- This looks like 24%.
- The raw increase looks like 7%.
- Did you reduce the number of spare sectors to get that 24%?
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- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
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