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From: phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup partitionning
Message-ID: <30867@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 May 89 21:34:37 GMT
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In article <1847@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
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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...

No, that it not what that was designed for (I'm one of the designers). It
was to have unallocated partitions.


>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...

Just seems that way. We actually like to have more than one supplier for
things like disk drives. The supplier in question, who was qualified by Apple
(NOT a simple thing to do) had only a 50 MB drive. If it wasn't cut down,
then Apple would be selling a mixture of 40 MB drives -- one 40MB, one 50MB.

It would take you guys on the net, say, 50 milliseconds to discover this. Then
every dealer would find his 50MB drives sold, and 40MB drives unsold. The only
options would be to sell Apple 40MB and 50MB drives -- and THAT would be
stupid. No??

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