I'll second the statement below.... From my 80gb Maxtor I get about 70 gigs (rough estimate) of data space. First is the rounding Tom spoke of then there is the overhead for the files systems etc. I'm running mine as HDA without problem. The ONLY thing I've noticed is that if it shares space on an IDE controller with a drive that is DMA 2 it will slow it down. (I had the CD-Rom as it's slave for a while) Maxtor seems to only like to share with Maxtor.
James On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:38:53 -0500 tom brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 06:55 am, Dalton Calford wrote: > > I have just purchased a Maxstor 80GB Hard drive (D740X-6L). > > The computer is a new P4 1.6 and the bios auto-detects it properly. > > It is mounted as hdc (it is master on second ide channel with no > > slave) When I use diskdrake, I can see the drive but, it reports it > > as being a 76GB drive (96% usage). > > 1000/1024 = ~97% HDD manufaturers take some creative license to > call a million bytes a MB, and then they tend to round up. Since > one K is 1024 bytes, an advertised 80 GB is really ~76GB. > Diskdrake is just tellin you the truth ;) Maxtor's no worse than > any other manufacturer, they all fib. > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > >
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