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| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
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| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
1601.0. "How much storage on a 5� disk?" by VTHRAX::KIP (No Dukes.) Tue Aug 16 1988 12:49
The following is an extract from comp.sys.amiga...
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
>Path: decwrl!sun!pepper!cmcmanis
>Subject: Arp "Bugs"
>Posted: 26 Apr 88 22:52:22 GMT
>Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
>
.
. (various info on ARP bugs)
.
>
>Now for the Info command "Bug".
>
>The original AmigaDOS Info made some rash assumption about how much data
>you could stuff into a block (namely 512 bytes) when in fact you could
>only stuff 488 bytes into a block. The program can deduce this from the
>BytesPerBlock value in the disk information structure. The AmigaDOS info
>command incorrectly reports 880K available for a floppy when it should
>report (22*80*488)/1024 or 837K. It would report a 5.25" floppy with
>1K sectors as having half as much space as it really did. So it isn't
^^^^^^^^^^
Hmmm, does this mean there is some way to tell AmigaDOS to put 1K bytes per
block on a 40-track 5� inch drive, thereby getting close to the storage of
the 3� drives? Or can we increase the number of sectors/track to achieve
the same result?
>a bug at all. (in ARP that is)
>
>--Chuck McManis
>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: [email protected]
>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
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