Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: GB vs. MB | Date | Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:53:53 -0500 (EST) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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> So you just have to divide it out. If your floppy disk says it has only say > 1474560bytes available the disk is actually a 1.40MB floppy. NOT a 1.44MB.
Agreed. "1.44Mb" floppy has 80 cylinders of 36 sectors of 512 bytes. 80*36*512 = 1440kb (about 1.40Mb)
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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