jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) (11/12/88)
In article <115@3s_phx.UUCP> rl@3s_phx.UUCP (Rod Longhofer) writes: > > I read the general info about UNIX-PC and i have a miniscribe 72 meg >disk drive and am getting a formated cap of 64m what are the hardware >changes required to use it all, i thought it was part of the file system >that limited this? Ooooooh bad news, bud. The UNIXpc chops your huge hard disk capacity down in FOUR ways: 1. Soft sector format, sector headers & gaps created by the WD1010-05 2. The 17th sectors of EVERY track is NOT USED, except as spares, created by the hard disk driver. 3. Swap space for UNIX (3-5 meg), created by the installation process you. 4. Room to support a news feed to get info on why your hard disk won't hold as much as you thought when you forked out all that modey, of course created by YOU! :) John -- John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu (614) h:294-4823, w:764-4272; MS-DOS is a beautiful flower that smells bad!