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From: mcgu5464@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Mcguire)
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Subject: Re: Where's the Megs ?
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Date: 10 Feb 91 19:29:50 GMT
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In article <21952.netnews.info.apple@pro-novapple> supton@pro-novapple.cts.com (Sam Upton) writes:
>I recently bought a Quantum 105 Meg drive from Alliance Periphrials.
>I used the Advanced Disk Utilities to format and partition the drive.
>No problems, except my 105 Meg drive only shows as 100 Megs. I've 

Sam,
I had a similar experience with my Vulcan 20 when I first bought it. It
showed up as 17Meg. I soon (within a week) melted it down by accident, and
took it in to get a new one... When I got that drive, it read 22Meg on it!
The best I can figgure out is that maybee they put more on board, then go
though and shut down all the bad mem. Perhaps, as a rule of averages,
AE gets 2 Meg bad on any 20 meg, so they put 22 on, and some drives
have a little more, some a little less... In the case of your Quantum,
they may shut down good sectors, so that it always reads 100, and if its
less, they scrap it. I would doubt there is a way to get at it though.

Dan

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