In a message dated 8/21/2004 5:53:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Dale, you're not reading my posts.
I am to!!
;-) I answered that in the email below > to which you replied.
> >You'll never get 250gb out of it, but you certainly should get
> >quite a bit more than 127-137gb; assuming your OS, file system,
> >and motherboard's BIOS support the 250gb drive size
>
> I'll try this again. Even if you have an mobo, BIOS, and OS that will
> support a single partitioned HD that's 250gb in size, it will never show
> that
> amount under "My computer" or anywhere else you see the HD listed in Windows
> due to the differences in drive labeling in DOS bytes as compared to bytes
> in
> Windows, and formatting. I think you mentioned it's now showing 240gb in
> Windows, and I said that's probably about right.
Aha!!!! NOW who's not reading who's posts? I said I SHOULD be getting
something like 247, but all I can get is 127. 127 is just a hair over half of the
capacity I SHOULD be getting.
I said yesterday that I > THINK it's 1008 bytes DOS = 1000 bytes in
> Windows, but like Steve said, he thinks it's 1024 bytes which it may be. I had "8"
> stuck in my head from
> converting Kbits/sec and KBytes/sec in transfer speeds for modems. (8 bits
> = 1 byte).
Okay, but it doesn't make a diddly damn bit of difference, I'm STILL
only getting 127 gig out of a 250 drive. Those minor amounts in difference
that you're talking about are like saying the drive is 250 gig in DOS which is
equal to 252 gig in Windows. If all I was short was 1 or 3 gig I wouldn't
really give a damn, but we're talking about nearly half of the disc capacity. A
Canadian dollar is worth something like 98 cents. If someone pays me 1 Canadian
dollar I'll still treat it like it was worth 100 pennies. I'm not the least
bit worried about getting screwed out of those two pennies. But if the
Canadian dollar was worth 52 cents, you can bet your parents that I'd be very
concerned over the loss I'd take if I accepted that bill as 100 pennies. So if I'm
only losing a few gig on the deal, no big fat hairy deal. But I'm losing 123
gig!! That's just rediculous!! If I wanted a 127 gig drive I'd've bought a
130 gig drive and saved myself about $120.00 in the bargain.
I have no idea how much an Ultra ATA will cost, but I have a feeling
I'm gonna get rooked again just so I can get the full 250 (give or take a few
gig) out of this drive.
> Ultra ATA isn't going to change anything.
The instructions that came with the drive say it will help give me the
250 gig. My friend, Ed, a registered computer techie also says the Ultra ATA
will give me the 250.
There was "ultra" ATA since > UDMA33. They are all considered "ultra".
> They were once called UDMA33, UDMA66, UDMA100 and UDMA133, but the "UDMA" was
> replaced with "ATA". The "U" in "UDMA" stands for "Ultra", and the "DMA" is
> Direct Memory Access. The suffix numbers indicate the maximum burst transfer
> speeds in MB/sec. At this point in time, I don't really understand this. I
> probably will in the future (I didn't get Rubic's cube when it first came,
> but I learned how to solve it and can now solve half of it without even looking
> at it), but, for now, you're talking some foreign language I've never even
> heard of.
>
> Ok, I found this. http://www.smartftp.com/support/kb/index.php/53 You can
> see the area about 8 bits equaling 1 byte, and the 1024 bytes equaling 1KB,
> or 1000 bytes in Windows.
>
> "How many bytes are in a kilobyte (KB)? One may think it's 1000 bytes, but
> its really 1024. Why is this so? It turns out that our early computer
> engineers [who used DOS], who dealt with the tiniest amounts of storage,
> noticed that 2^10 (1024) was very close to 10^3 (1000); so based on the
> prefix kilo, for 1000, they created the KB. (You may have heard of
> kilometers
> (Km) which is 1000 meters). So in actuality, one KB is really 1024 bytes,
> not
> 1000. It's a small difference, but it adds up over a while."
But not THAT much.
>
> I think this works out to about 244gb for your 250gb HD. So 240gb may be
> about right after formatting.
If all I can get is 240 or 244 I'll be happy with that, I understand
that I'm losing some because of programming or whatever, but I'm STILL only
getting 127. That's a LOOOONG way off from 240/44.
Dale
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