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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: super high density formatters
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Date: 18 Nov 90 02:06:51 GMT
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mig@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:

>I would like to try these super high density formatters.
>I know that most of the HD disks are *really* rated for *2* megabytes!
>It seems to be the drive that isn't capable of the format?
>Can someone send me the whereabouts of these files so I can try them?

	If you look closer (at least on some of the disks) it says "2.0
Megabytes *UNFORMATTED* Capacity".  Now, I may be stupid, but what the heck
good is it to be this way, you can't use it until it's been formatted!!
I've always wondered about this....