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From: gcc@ssc-vax.UUCP (Greg C Croasdill)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Hard Disk 20 Comments...
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 13:49:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 13:49:09 1986
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> Well, time for my second installment on the joys and 
> trepidations of the Apple HD20 hard disk.  
> 
...
>
> Another point is that the "Available" disk space message shown in the
> title bar of a window does NOT agree with either of these disk figures!
> 
> Furthermore, when I ended up with about 60 files and 1.5 
> megabytes in one folder (which was several layers deep itself),
> the system took over 10 MINUTES to attempt to display the desktop
> of the file, AND NEVER DID DISPLAY IT CORRECTLY (ie. it was 
> jumbled).  I was able to throw out some of the files and it 
> finally began to operate correctly again, but I haven't yet 
> defined the limits.
> 
....
> 
> Also, a GetInfo on the Disk indicates 13,736,448 bytes in use,
> but adding up the GetInfo data from each of the folders contained
> in the next level of the disk only yields 12,782,080 bytes:  What
> happened to the missing 1+ Megabyte???
> 

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I'd like to add to his comments about these problems.
I initalized a disk at home, did some work on it and brought it into
work. ( We have an Mac here with a HD20 on it and Finder 5.0). I noticed
that the amount of disk space on my 400K disk (used + available) only added
up to 391K.  9K is not alot in today's technology, so this did not bother me
too much.  However, when I initialized a new disk, to transfer the data over
to, it came up as only having 120K total, available on the disk.  I had to 
initalize it twice, before it came up with the now familiar 391K.
Apple listen -- *THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING!!!!!*

We forgave you for the 128K Mac.... but this is going too far.

I am not going to rush out and buy a HD20.

					Greg Croasdill
					(uw-beaver|fluke)!ssc-vax!gcc