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Article #21179Re: SE Internal Hard Disk Size
From: Raymond Lau
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 14:12
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 14:12
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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've seen other SE's down in the 17000K range. How big is the drive, and should > I be worried about the 1Mbyte I'm missing, or am I lucky to get 19,000K out? > Email replies and I'll summarize.... > HD Setup (since 1.3 I think) sets the HD to a fixed amount of usable space. Before, they formatted it to as much good sectors as that once existed, but that caused a minor problem. If you were to back up a nearly full hd, reformat it...and then find that there's less room...makes restoring that much more difficult! So Apple decided to leave a safety buffer and format it to a number in the 19Mb range... (expecting that there'll never be less usable space on the disk - unless the disk is in need of replacement)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ptsfa!hoptoad!dasys1!raylau From: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SE Internal Hard Disk Size Message-ID: <1883@dasys1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 09:12:47 EST Article-I.D.: dasys1.1883 Posted: Tue Nov 3 09:12:47 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 08:45:43 EST References: <549@wolf.UUCP> Organization: The Big Electric Cat Lines: 7 Keywords: How Big ? Summary: HD Setup sets HD size