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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arp info bug?
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Date: 1 May 89 17:43:01 GMT
References: <2078@wpi.wpi.edu> <415@nadia.UUCP>
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In article <415@nadia.UUCP> agnus@nadia.UUCP (Matthias Zepf) writes:
>In article <2078@wpi.wpi.edu> pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) writes:
>>Oddly enough, Arp1.3's info claims that Amiga floppies are 837K.
>That is completely right. Look here:
>	80 Tracks * 2 Sides * 11 Sectors * 488 Bytes = 838.75 kByte/Disk
>With normal file system a sector only contains 488 Byte and not 512!


This still seems slightly bogus to me. If you are going to become
incompatible, why not go all the way?  Why not remove the two reserved secotors
from the count? Why not remove the root directory, since that is also in
effect reserved? What about extension blocks? File header blocks? None of these
sectors are available for storing MY data.  -- Darren