Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
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From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Subject: Re: Is it the interleave?
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.202906.15087@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
References: <1989Sep27.022039.14752@telly.on.ca> <1989Sep28.182627.25730@eci386.uucp>
Distribution: can
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 20:29:06 GMT
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In article <1989Sep28.182627.25730@eci386.uucp>
    woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>BTW, I wouldn't call the Maxtor 1140 (it's actually 114 Mb) a screamer!
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, Greg, if you're going to be picky, so can I.  As is fairly common
in the industry, Maxtor specifies the pre-formatted capacity.  The
after-formatting capacity depends upon the controller and the formatting
software (in particular, it's method for handling bad areas on the disk).
On the late Spectrix systems, Maxtor 1140 disks formatted out to having
122 Mb available for Unix file systems etc., not counting the 1.8 Mb
allocated for alternating tracks containing bad blocks.

I agree that it's neither a screamer nor a plodder.  (As an additional
consideration, it has been around long enough that there is *no* concern
about Maxtor still being on the learning curve for this drive :-).
-- 
"Software and cathedrals are much the same -          | John Macdonald
first we build them, then we pray" (Sam Redwine)      |   jmm@eci386