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- From: klump@vati.fmi.uni-passau.de (Karsten Klump)
- Subject: Re: Quantum LP120S
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.095702.19698@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
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- Organization: University of Passau, W-Germany
- References: <1992Dec16.021320.21415@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:57:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.021320.21415@samba.oit.unc.edu> 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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- You won't get any more than these 114 meg, because manufacturers of harddrives
- discribe their Megabyte as 1000 * 1000 Bytes (not 1024*1024 as it should be).
- I've got an LPS105 and I con get exactly 100 megs on it.
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