Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!bose
From: bose@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Miniscribe 3085 on Dos3.3?
Message-ID: <36300051@iuvax>
Date: 17 Jul 89 13:40:00 GMT
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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Nf-From: iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!bose    Jul 17 08:40:00 1989


I just tried to install a Miniscribe 3085  hard disk on my AST Premium 286.
The disk is 85Meg unformatted.  I used DiskManager to install the disk.  I
got 72Megs out of the disk.  I set it up to have a .9Meg bootable partition,
and a 71Meg read/write partition. I am running Dos 3.3.

The problem I am having is that after copying all my files onto the hard
disk, 32Megs of files, 52Megs are allocated.  I checked how much space is
being used by the files, and found that a directory containing 5 entries,
totalling 200K was taking up 1.4Meg of disk space.  Now I understand that
a certain amount of slack is normal, but 20Meg is too much.

I am loading a device driver, supplied with DiskManager, to get the large
partition size.  I have also tried it with Dos 4.1 and don't have a problem
with slack, however, I get only 62Megs from the disk.

Has anyone had the same results or know what is the fix?