On 10/31/2003 4:58 PM, Haluk wrote:

> "Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
> yazdi:bnt2mk$i5i$2@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> 
>>On 10/31/2003 4:20 PM, Bryan Parker wrote:
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>>>Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> said:
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>>>>On 10/31/2003 5:41 AM, Haluk wrote:
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>>>>>"Bryan Parker" <puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>>>>>yazdi:f082qv0f1i2f8uoa5t4tvf8ufa26qm7no8@4ax.com...
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>>>>>>"Haluk" <yokoolebiri@spam.net> said:
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>>>>>>>"Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>>>>>>>yazdi:bnqfte$q68$4@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
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>>>>>>>>On 10/29/2003 9:32 PM, Haluk wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>"Fabian" <lajzar@hotmail.com>, haber iletisinde ?unlar?
>>>>>>>>>yazd?:bno6ck$11c1m9$1@ID-174912.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Haluk hu kiteb:
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>>>>>>>>>>>"Jean-Marc Desperrier" <jmdesp@alussinan.org>, haber iletisinde
>>>>>>>>>>>sunlari yazdi:bno0q3$4ld$1@reader1.imaginet.fr...
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>>>>>>>>>>>>SR wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>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
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>>>>>was
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>>>>>>>>>>>>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
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> 128Gb
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>>>>>>>>>>>limit? just thinking out loud
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I imagine it was also somewhat dumb to build massive 1GB drives
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> when
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>>>>>>>>>>there was a 512MB limit.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I may be wrong here but I think they have increased the limit (to
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> 2Gb
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>>>>>>>per
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>>>>>>>>>partition for Fat32) than introduced 1GB harddrives. Not sure
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> though,
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>>>>>>>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
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>>>>>compact and more resillient...
>>>>
>>>>They may be smaller, but they're harder.
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>>>
>>>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?

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com