Actually.
I'd like the proper answer to that as well. I guessed that unformatted
capacity represents the total amount of data that can be stored on the disk.
Formatting added extra information (like an [un]allocated sector/cluster
map, root directory, boot info and program, etc) that
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David McCann wrote:
All this has prompted me to look at my own 40GB disk. It is reported to
have a capacity of 35.5GB (just 5.5GB used!), showing that Seagate used
factors of 1000 and Linux of 1024. Looking at unused directories shows
that every
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
(AFAIK) When a cartridge was formatted, the blocks were written with
decreasing block
Robert Newson wrote:
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte
blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since I used a QL in
anger -- even
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since I used a QL in
anger -- even though I have one set up right here in the office :-/
So... My estimate of 3.5million MDVs is, in fact, wrong; it should be
Robert Newson wrote:
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since
I used a QL
in anger -- even though I have one set up right here in the
office :-/
So... My estimate of 3.5million
At 15:10 30/04/2007, you wrote:
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
512 byte seectors.
one map sector, one byte for each potential sector, I had a few mdvs
of 250 sectors.
Note tpp, every file fragmented of
