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From: kent@visix.com (Ken Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Minor Hard Disk Question...
Message-ID: <1991May28.202529.9189@visix.com>
Date: 28 May 91 20:25:29 GMT
References: <1991May27.081538.9810@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <2896@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
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In article <2896@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, weiss@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes:
|> [stuff deleted...]
|> The first part is something that I have noticed a lot with Apple's Formatter.
|> For whatever reason, you get more disk space when you use SilverLining or
|> some other non-Apple driver.  I don't know why Apple won't use the entire disk.
|> Seems lame to me, but then again Apple has never been known for making the
|> BEST software, just SOME software.  That's why 3rd parties were invented :).
|> --


Apple has multiple sources for its disk drives.  (We all know this, right?)  Each
manufacturer has a drive in the 40 MB class, for example, but the exact capacity of the
drive varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.  If you go buy a new Mac with a 40 MB
drive and your friend buys a new Mac with a 40 MB drive (but different manufacturer), 
but his drive turns out to actually have 43 MB, you'd probably feel kind-of gypped (sp?).
A simple solution to this is to format all drives to the same capacity.  That way,
they all look the same to the average user and no one thinks they are getting ripped off.
(Yes, this really happens.)

Ken Turner
Visix Software Inc.
kent@visix.com