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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup partitionning
Message-ID: <1847@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 08:27:42 GMT
References: <892@cnetlu.UUCP> <12994@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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The reason for the Apple_Free partition is to accomodate the differences in
formatted size between different HD20s. The argument goes, if your drive has
no defects, and then it dies, if it's very very full you won't be able to
restore the backups onto another drive which does have some defects.

I don't agree, but I'm not making Apple's decisions...

Do you all realize that on the original Apple 40MB disks, you were actually
getting 50MB disks formatted down to 40MB? Don't ask me why. They even burned
a special ROM so you couldn't get back the ten megs. Stupid...

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Alexis Rosen
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