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- From: timm@xongmao.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim McClarren)
- Subject: Re: Results of installing Fujitsu 520M internal
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:27:28 GMT
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- matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
-
- >If anyone's considering buying a Fujitsu 520M internal hard drive for their
- >NeXTstation, it'll work just fine.
-
- >It's a 2624F drive.
-
- >It Just Works. Rory Bolt's formatter app for old Fujitsu's works just fine.
- >It gives 516368 K after formatting, 464731 useable for mortal users. Access
- >times are in the 12-17ms range. It's noticeably faster than my old Fujitsu
- >2261. Disk's 'read' utility reports > 730K/s transfer rates.
-
- Yes, this has gone around a few times. It should be in the FAQ if
- it isn't yet. One comment though, I DIDN'T use Rory Bolt's formatter
- app but used builddisk instead and I get approx. the same amount of usable
- space:
-
- Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
- /dev/sd0a 490984 395840 46045 90% /
-
- I will also mention that I did have slight heat problems with this
- drive on the INSIDE of the machine (but my office is pretty hot
- to begin with...with proper ventilation you'll probably be okay),
- and have since moved it out and put the old drive in and put
- the Fuji in an external case (although it's still SCSI ID 0).
-
- Tim
-
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