spworley@athena.mit.edu (Spaceman Spiff) (03/09/91)
I just bought and installed a new Quantum 105 ProDrive on my system. It works fine. However, using HDToolbox, the drive only formatted to 100 MB, not 105MB. Is the Quantum 105 really a 100 meg drive, or did HDToolbox underestimate? If it is wrong, can someone send me the # of cylinders, heads, etc from the mountlist [or HDToolbox] so I can reformat the drive correctly? Thanks. -Steve PS- The thing flies! I love it already. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Worley spworley@athena.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (03/19/91)
In article <1991Mar8.185521.10534@athena.mit.edu> spworley@athena.mit.edu (Spaceman Spiff) writes: >I just bought and installed a new Quantum 105 ProDrive on my system. >It works fine. However, using HDToolbox, the drive only formatted to >100 MB, not 105MB. Is the Quantum 105 really a 100 meg drive, or did >HDToolbox underestimate? If it is wrong, can someone send me the # of >cylinders, heads, etc from the mountlist [or HDToolbox] so I can reformat >the drive correctly? Thanks. HDToolBox is correct (or very close to). Note that 105M is M=million, not M=meg (1024*1024). A fairly common thing in drive companies. At least they list it in formatted size: some manufacturers are renowned for using unformatted figures, or include spare blocks/cylinders. 1027704K (100Meg) = 105,168,896 bytes. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)