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- From: sct@beta.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.223142.3167@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:31:42 GMT
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- I believe that disk manufacters do list the "unformatted" capacity of their
- drives. I'm not exactly sure how they come up with the value but it is
- always a larger value than the formatted value and marketeers being what
- they are will always give you the biggest number they can, even if it is
- bogus.
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- Steve Tenbrink
- sct@lanl.gov
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