[Coco] B&B HD Setup

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009, tonym wrote:
>I finally aborted it at the 36-hour mark.
>
>Surely there is something wrong at that point....
>
How big (megabytes) is that drive?
>
>Tony
>
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>From: wdg3rd at comcast.net
>Sent 5/5/2009 12:13:18 AM
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts coco at maltedmedia.com
>Subject: Re: [Coco] B&B HD Setup
>
>It amazes me how slow "fast" systems are at formatting hard disks. Back in
> the Day (the early 80s), it took a PC/XT (supposedly using a 16-bit CPU)
> about 45 minutes to high-level format a 10-Meg drive, and it took a TRS-80
> Model 4 (which never claimed more than 8-bit) about 15 minutes to
> high-level format a 15-Meg drive. (Let's not talk about low-level
> formatting, that's overnight anywhere). We could talk about how much better
> LS-DOS is than MS-DOS, but that would be off-topic. (LS-DOS is still my
> favorite single-user OS -- it has a number of features in common with OS-9
> and a few that might improve NITROS-9).


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