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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Finnegan's wake-up call)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Where's the Megs ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.175504.19539@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 17:55:04 GMT
References: <21952.netnews.info.apple@pro-novapple>
Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (Finnegan's wake-up call)
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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 
>discussed this with others in my users' group (Washington Apple Pi)
>and others have similar experiences with their drives. Anyone know why
>5 Megs seem to be lost ? Is there a way to recover the use of that
>disk space ? Any response would be welcome, either E-mail or on this
>news group (Apple Pi has an account, but no posting/mail privlidges, and
>I'm sure they would be interested in any replies).

I can't believe no one told you this:  It is NOT a 105Meg drive, it's a 100
meg drive + a few extra K.

See, 100 Megs is about 104,000,000 bytes, so a Conner 100 Meg drive is
advertised as 104 since anyone doing a dit on the blank drive will see
104Million byes (of course, everyone uses an IBM, right?)  The Qunatum
is a 100 meg drive with enough extra K (like maybe .05 Megs) to push it
over 105Million bytes.  Viola!  A 105 Meg drive.

Basically it's false advertising.


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