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- From: paul@sierra.com (Paul Stratton)
- Subject: Re: settings for Maxtor 7213
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.195336.5403@sierra.com>
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- Organization: Sierra Geophysics Inc., Kirkland, Wa
- References: <jnpotts.721330554@du248-10.cc.iastate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:53:36 GMT
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- In article <jnpotts.721330554@du248-10.cc.iastate.edu> jnpotts@iastate.edu (James N. Potts) writes:
- >Can someone tell me the bios settings needed (ie, cyls, heads, sector size)
- >for a 7213? The settings given to me by my dealer calculate to 203 megs of
- >data. This seems a tad bit small. If anyone is getting more space than this
- >from their drive, please send me the settings!
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- 1024 * 1024 = 1048576 or 1MB
- 1048576 * 203 = 212,860,928 or 213 METRIC MEGS (an advertising gimmick)
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- Isn't math wonderful! A metric MB is 48576 bytes smaller than a real MB.
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