Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!axi0349 From: axi0349@isc.rit.edu (A.X. Ivasyuk ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Where's the Megs ? Summary: Formatted Capacity Message-ID: <1991Feb12.213308.12478@isc.rit.edu> Date: 12 Feb 91 21:33:08 GMT References: <21952.netnews.info.apple@pro-novapple> <15145@smoke.brl.mil>, Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Lines: 18 In article , gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: > > To add to the "where's the megs" discussion, I've got a Segate 1096N > which is supposed to be 84 megs. I could only format it for 80... Go > -Greg T. Most hard drives are rated at an unformatted capacity. That is, the capacity when the drive is formatted is usually less than the quoted capacity because the formatting info the drive has to write takes up an amount of space proportional to the size of the drive. - Anatole @@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@ Anatoly Ivasyuk @@@ @@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ (axi0349@ultb.isc.rit.edu) @ @ @ @ @ @@@@ @ @ Computer Science House @ @@@ @@@@@ @ @ @ @ Rochester Institute of Technology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @ "If all else fails, RTFM." @@@ @@@ @ @