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- From: kroener@cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Kroener)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Quantum LP120S
- Message-ID: <23547@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:22:37 GMT
- Sender: news@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de
- Organization: Computer Science, University of the Saarland, Germany
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- mcphil@med.unc.edu (Philip McNamara) writes:
- >
- > Ok, simple question number 1. How many megabytes will fit on a
- > Quantum LP120S? 120 or close enough to round up? So... like
- > 115 or 119? I just purchased a new one from Computer Shopping
- > Network and can only get 114 mgeabytes using FFS. The drive did not
- > come with a sector error chart, so I am assuming no errors. Safe
- > assumption? I don't know, can someone help?
- >
- > Philip McNamara
- > McPhil@med.unc.edu
- >
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- Hmh, I've formatted mine under OS 2.04 and I got 116.7 MBytes. As I heard
- somewhere Quantum not uses 1024 Bytes for kilo (or mega) but 1000 Bytes to
- calculate the diskspace.
- I think that's the reason (correct me if I'm wrong)
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- ---Thomas
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