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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arp info bug?
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Date: 2 May 89 21:07:52 GMT
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In article <2078@wpi.wpi.edu> (Kevin Goroway) writes:
>Oddly enough, Arp1.3's info claims that Amiga floppies are 837K.

Oddly enough, that's how much data they can hold. 
	1760 blocks * 488 bytes/block / 1024 bytes/K = 838K
	two reserved blocks (bootblocks) 	     -   1K
						     =======
				Total Capacity	       837K

And in fact it is a bit lower than that since this doesn't consider the
overhead of a fileheader block, directory block, and any extension blocks
that may be required.


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