Re: SCSI drive

On or around Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:20:39 GMT, Tony Davison
<bigtone56@xxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:

>On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:39:56 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On or around Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:31:07 +0100, Bernard Peek <bap$@shrdlu.com>
>> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>>In message <gqach11jrkt7hm2104399gkmni07818gl6@xxxxxxx>, Austin Shackles
>>><austinNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>>>
>>>>any thoughts?
>>>
>>>Don't have an XP machine here but from what I unforget you need Control
>>>Panel, Administrative Tools, Storage or somesuch. Assign the disk a
>>>drive letter and then you can format it. Or have you tried that?
>>
>> I got partition magic to sort it. Interestingly, it declined to be either
>> FAT or NTFS, but allowed it to be FAT32. 'tis now jbexvat.
>
>Prolly wont do NTFS 'cos the journal/overhead is likely bigger that
>350Mbs. (insert smiley of choice if required)

hmmm. FAT16 shouldn't have been a promble though.

interestingly, the access time looks slower over the netjbex from this
chamine - I may rethink and put the live news and mail files back on the IDE
and the backup ones on the SCSI. definitely slower downloading and
molishing the news since I changed it over, anyway.
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