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From: town@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Brian R. Town)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: formatting a miniscribe 3085
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Date: 10 Nov 90 01:13:15 GMT
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Johnny (more acurately) writes:

>The 3085 is an 85mb drive (unformatted), about 71mb (DOS formatted).


In making my statement I was referencing Pat's original post.  I knew that
someone had made a reference to two partitions which added up to more than
71 Megabytes, but was relying on my memory.  The following is Pat's original
post: 

>I have recently purchased a Miniscribe 3085 drive.  (I bought it
>used)  I had it installed at a local computer store, and they
>happily did a low-level format leaving me with partitions of
>33 and 50 megabytes (approx).  I didn't think that this was legal

Brian (someday I'm gonna make one of those fancy signatures) Town