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- From: "Gary Hopkins" <wk00624@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Duo HD problems: HELP (Apple: say something!)
- In-Reply-To: <Apgar-070193002911@17.127.11.26>
- Message-ID: <2935622957.7.wk00624@psilink.com>
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- Organization: Gary Hopkins Typesetting
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:54:28 GMT
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- >DATE: 7 Jan 93 08:33:49 GMT
- >FROM: Gar <Apgar@Apple.com>
- >
- >In article <43129@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ewa@cs.ucsd.edu (Eric Anderson) wrote:
- >>
- >> In article <lau-060193100320@michigan.aero.org> lau@aerospace.aero.org (David Lau) writes:
- >> >In article <1993Jan2.173624@lamisun.epfl.ch>, pulfer@lamisun.epfl.ch
- >> >(Jean-Michel Pulfer) wrote:
- >> >>
- >> >> I did have the same problem as David: I wanted to get rid of the
- >> >> circa 2800KB `hole' Apple left on my PowerBook 180's 120MB HD. It
- >> >I did reformat my drive to utilize all of the HD ... Hmmmm I wonder if that
- >> >has anything to do with my HD crashes on my Duo....
- >>
- >> Sheesh, well, Apple can keep the 5.5MB they set aside on the 80 in my 210
- >> for a while longer! Would anyone at Apple be kind enough to tell us
- >>
- >> 1. There must be some good reason for all that extra space, riiiight?
- >> 2. Are we crazy to think that reclaiming it could cause random failures?
- >
- >I am in no way connected to the Duo projects, but I think the same
- >reasoning applies to these HD's as with all the other Macs. Apple
- >gets HDs from various manufacturers with VARIOUS sizes. We can't be
- >shipping the same CPU out with different size HD's so they are all
- >formatted down to a common size.
- >
- >I have reclaimed space on Apple HD's from many different models
- >and I don't believe it ever causes problems. But, I have not had the
- >pleasure of working with a Duo HD.
- >
- >Apgar@Apple.com | Eric Apgar alias Gar | I said it, NOT Apple.
-
- See the just-mailed February issue of MacWorld, page 278: "How to unlock
- the hidden storage on your hard drive" which details the procedure for
- getting full partition usage from Apple-supplied drives, using HD SC Setup.
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