On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:03:34 +0900, Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>On 10/31/2003 4:58 PM, Haluk wrote:
>
>> "Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>> yazdi:bnt2mk$i5i$2@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
>> 
>>>On 10/31/2003 4:20 PM, Bryan Parker wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> said:
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>>>>
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>>>>>On 10/31/2003 5:41 AM, Haluk wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>"Bryan Parker" <puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>>>>>>yazdi:f082qv0f1i2f8uoa5t4tvf8ufa26qm7no8@4ax.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"Haluk" <yokoolebiri@spam.net> said:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>"Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>>>>>>>>yazdi:bnqfte$q68$4@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On 10/29/2003 9:32 PM, Haluk wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>"Fabian" <lajzar@hotmail.com>, haber iletisinde ?unlar?
>>>>>>>>>>yazd?:bno6ck$11c1m9$1@ID-174912.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Haluk hu kiteb:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>"Jean-Marc Desperrier" <jmdesp@alussinan.org>, haber iletisinde
>>>>>>>>>>>>sunlari yazdi:bno0q3$4ld$1@reader1.imaginet.fr...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>SR wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The "Computer Management" reports the HD as 128 GB   and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Partition Magic shows it as 131 GB.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>185.2 GB is written on the hard disk...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>So you go with your 180 Gb disk, but you've been hitting the LBA
>>>>>>>>>>>>>adressing limits of 128 Gb.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Back in 94 when disks were beginning to hit the 512 Mo limit,
>> 
>> LBA
>> 
>>>>>>was
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>something revolutionnary designed to avoid this kind of problem,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>ever, imagine this, it would go up to 128 Gb !
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Isn't it somewhat dumb to manufacture 180Gb HDs when there is
>> 
>> 128Gb
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>limit? just thinking out loud
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>I imagine it was also somewhat dumb to build massive 1GB drives
>> 
>> when
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>there was a 512MB limit.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I may be wrong here but I think they have increased the limit (to
>> 
>> 2Gb
>> 
>>>>>>>>per
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>partition for Fat32) than introduced 1GB harddrives. Not sure
>> 
>> though,
>> 
>>>>>>>>it's
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>been so long time. Ahh, floppy days, test drive, packman. Anyone
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>remember
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>5.25" floppies?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Hell, I remember 8" floppies.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I meant no offense sir... :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You don't know what I would have given for an 8"
>>>>>>>floppy this afternoon!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Well If I'm to make a choice here I'd prefer today's 3.5" ones. They
>> 
>> are
>> 
>>>>>>compact and more resillient...
>>>>>
>>>>>They may be smaller, but they're harder.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Now, where have I heard that a thousand times
>>>>before?
>>>
>>>And did I mention that they last longer?
>> 
>> We're talking about different things, you know. I'm talking about drives
>> you're talking about discs
>
>Are you sure?

Without a drive, a disc is pretty useless anyway.