On 12/07/2014 12:56 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
The disk is 1440 K, which is NOT 1.44M, it is
1.40625M,
or simply "1.4M".
Was it an ERROR? Or the work of cheating assholes?
Who's cheating? The maker of your formatting program? (Reaches over to
the top of his PC and grabs a high-density 3.5" floppy) I see three
lines of writing on the shutter.
Line 1: "IMATION"
Line 2: "2HD"
Line 3: "2.0 MB"
And, as I pointed out, at the customary western high-density clock rate
of 500KHz and 300 RPM rotation--and 8 bit bytes, comes out to exactly
2,000,000 bytes.
Don't blame the manufacturer for getting less than you bargained for.
It's very clear that "2.0 MB" means 2 x 10**6 bytes.
--Chuck