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Article #21152Re: SE Internal Hard Disk Size
From: Tom Kimpton
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 18:04
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 18:04
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In article <549@wolf.UUCP> drew@wolf.UUCP (Drew Dean) writes:
>My SE with Apple's 20Mb drive formatted out to 19,019K (as reported in the title
> bar). For a supposedly 20Mb [formatted] drive, this is a lot of bad sectors.
I'm not sure about this, someone told me that disk drive manufacturers
label their drives differently than you and I might think: a 20Mb drive
is actually 20,000,000 bytes, NOT 20*1024*1024. Thus 20e6 bytes is
19.07 * 1024*1024 bytes. So.... if the routine used to put the
size in the title bar does it this way then you're doing pretty well.
I don't know about those other sizes, however.
Anyone out there know better?
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!iconsys!tom From: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SE Internal Hard Disk Size Message-ID: <189@iconsys.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 13:04:17 EST Article-I.D.: iconsys.189 Posted: Tue Nov 3 13:04:17 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 03:48:23 EST References: <549@wolf.UUCP> Reply-To: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton) Organization: Icon International Inc., Orem, Utah Lines: 17 Keywords: How Big ?