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From: Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Stingy Internal SE Hard Drive
Message-ID: <11991@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 Dec 88 22:08:55 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Greetings.

I've enjoyed using my Mac SE HD 20 for more than a year now.
Unfortunately, I'm not enjoying having to maintain a library of
floppies with all the files I need to keep handy but can't keep
online, because of space limitations. Alhough I know the ultimate
solution is to get more storage, perhaps someone can help me with an
intermediary step.

When I format my internal hard disk, I wind up with 19,200 K free -- a
little more than a megabyte less than what I would expect from a 20Mb
drive. The desktop file is only 7K in size... where is the rest of the
space going? Is the Apple internal HD really a 19 Mb drive? Is there
any way to format that drive to eek out a few more K of storage?
Believe it or not, a little bit of room would make a lot of
difference.

Finally, when it comes time to buy a hard disk, it would be nice to
know what size they are when they're formatted. I hear some 20 Mb
drives actually format to a slightly higher storage level ...
like 22 Mb.

You're welcome to email or post your replies... But I prefer posting
because it lets other people learn from you. It seems the people who
insist you email replies never post summaries of the responses, so
you're left hanging with a good question unresolved.

Thanks.

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_  Bill Marriott       Northwestern University: innen@nuacc.bitnet  
_                      GEnie: W.MARRIOTT              CI$: 72047,2770
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