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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:19:54 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown
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> If you've ever tried to venti format a 20GB disk you'd know why it
> sucks to deal with.

If you turn DMA on, formatting the 20GB disk
will be a lot faster.  (All the time is spent zeroing
the disk.)

Russ