Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!questor!aberno From: aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Misc questions Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 00:12:58 GMT Organization: Questor::Free Internet/Usenet*Vancouver*BC::+1 604 681.0670 Lines: 37 Well, after getting my cube+upgrade, I asked my salesperson why I didn't get an OD with system 2.0 on it (it was preloaded on the hard disk) and he explained that I had to buy it separately. After grumbling about having to use my own optical to back up the system, I posted a query on the net, to make sure that my salesman wasn't doing a snow job on me, and I was assured that, yes, you have to buy the OD separately and that I wasn't being snowed. Well... Today, my documentation arrived along with an OD containing system 2.0. But that is a matter of only slight interest. I have some more pressing queries: 1) When you add the size of root (found by using the Inspector panel in the workspace) with the amount of free space on the disk, is it supposed to total the size of the disk? I am short by about 80 meg on a 660 meg disk. No, I don't have a partition, in fact I removed it when I got my computer by doing a build disk. The transcript from the build revealed that it should have 690 meg, and when I opened up the computer to fix a little rattle, the sticker on the disk said it was 760 meg! Does anyone else have this problem with missing disk space? If you wouldn't mind, please do the above calculation and tell me what you get. I'm curious if this is normal - I suspect it is - but it bothers me to have an amount of space equal to 4 of the hard drives on my old Mac gone missing. '2) Also, is it a bad sign if a hard disk rattles? I opened up the machine and stuck a few pieces of cardboard around the disk drive, and it stopped, and I'm happy. Was it simply a jiggly mount, or is my drive going to die? Thanks very much to all past and future help. Believe me, I appreciate it! --- Anthony Berno (aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca) The QUESTOR Project: Free Public Access to Usenet & Internet in Vancouver, BC, Canada, at +1 604 681 0670.