<RANT> There ain't no sech thing as a 1.44M
disk. The IBM style of HD
3.5has 2 sides, 80 tracks per side, 18 sectors per track, and 512 bytes
per sector. If you multiply that out, you get 1.406 HONEST Megabytes
(1048576). The only way to get 1.44 out of that is to creatively
redefine a Megabyte to be 1024000 bytes. That leaves IBM in the position
of claiming that a megabyte of memory is 1048576 bytes, but that a
megabyte of disk space is 1024000 bytes! If IBM ran a donut shop, how
many donuts would there be in a dozen??? </RANT>
Hmm... then why does a chkdsk a: on a '1.44' drive and disk return
the following:
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1,457,664 bytes total disk space
512 bytes in 1 directories
1,185,792 bytes in 20 user files
271,360 bytes available on disk
512 bytes in each allocation unit
2,847 total allocation units on disk
530 available allocation units on disk
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You had better check *your* math!
2 * 80 * 18 * 512 = 1474560
Sure looks like at least 1.44 Mb to me!
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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