Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!husc6!bbn.com!mips2!granite!moncreaf From: moncreaf@granite.cr.bull.com (Donald W. Moncreaff) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: CDC WREN IV is Lying!!! Keywords: scsi, wren Message-ID: <1990Aug20.115516.1454@granite.cr.bull.com> Date: 20 Aug 90 11:55:16 GMT References: <2001@lzga.ATT.COM> <353@cipric.mn.org> Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc. Lines: 14 In article <353@cipric.mn.org> ecr@cipric.mn.org (Edward C. Regal) writes: >In article <2001@lzga.ATT.COM> apb@lzga.ATT.COM (Amrit Bains) writes: >>I just brought a CDC WREN IV Model Number 94171-307 ( 8-). >>The disk drive has 320 MB of disk space. >>when I added it to my system it showed only 286 MB ( 8-( ). > >Sounds like the old lying drive trick to me ...(:- > >Actually sounds like the difference between an unformatted and a >formatted drive. > >Ed what is the range of formatted capacity for the wren *-307 drives?