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Re: Re: 180gb Drive Format ?



Just to add my 2p's worth...
am sure someone may have covered this way back when this started - but isnt
it the case that drive sized are specified as /unformatted/ (the 1.44mb
floppy kinda prodded me in the right direction again) If you take a look at
some of the old 3.5" disks they always had a disclaimer on them to say
that
the size quoted was the unformatted size - am sure  that this was always
the
case with HD's too (this is going back 14 odd years tho!) as a lot does
depend on the o/s (and formatting parameters) used...

Anyways - thats probly 2.5 p so I'll shut up now...

Wayne.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:30 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: 180gb Drive Format ?
>
> IIRC, the capacity of a 1.44MB floppy is also expressed in decimal
> MB...
>
> Patrick



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