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- From: daniels@xstor.com (Daniel A. Segel)
- Subject: Re: Duo HD problems: HELP (Apple: say something!)
- Message-ID: <daniels-070193111218@175.175.10.2>
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- Organization: Storage Dimensions, Inc.
- References: <lau-301292101633@michigan.aero.org> <1993Jan2.173624@lamisun.epfl.ch> <lau-060193100320@michigan.aero.org> <43129@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:16:02 GMT
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- In article <43129@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ewa@cs.ucsd.edu (Eric Anderson) wrote:
- >
- (comments about extra wasted space on Apple hard drives deleted)
- >
- > 1. There must be some good reason for all that extra space, riiiight?
- Maybe, but that depends on whether you look at the sitaation from Apple's
- POV or your own.
-
- Apple buys drives from several vendors, and in order to have the formatted
- capacity uniform, they partition the drives into the lowest common size
- available on all the mechanisms they may use.
-
- That way, any two 120MB hard drives from apple will be the same size, and
- if your neighbor's is from Sony while yours is a Quantum you won't go
- screaming
- to apple because your neighbor's drive is 2 or 3 MB'sa larger than your
- own.
-
-
- > 2. Are we crazy to think that reclaiming it could cause random failures?
- Reclaiming the extra space should not in and of itself cause any problems
- at all. Reinstalling all your software and the System, however, poses a
- much
- greater risk than simply letting it sit on your hard drive. Of course, even
- this greater risk is fairly inconsequential...
-
-
- Daniel S.
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Daniel A. Segel, KD6NMT Macintosh Customer Engineering
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