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From: rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola)
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Subject: Re: super high density formatters
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Date: 18 Nov 90 04:14:19 GMT
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In article <1990Nov18.020651.13744@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>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....

To reasons for this. 1) the formatted capacity depends on the type of format.
2) the marketing guys will always give you the maximum possible number in
the specs.

Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
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