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Subject: Re: SyQuest EZ135 Removable cartridge disk drive
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> Question: It only formatted to about 128Meg... The docs say it it 135Meg.
> 	Is this correct ????  

128*1024*1024=134217728
135*1000*1000=135000000


Disk manufacturers always use 1M = 1e6 bytes, not the 1M = 2^16
we're used to. The fact this inflates the size by about 4% is
purely co-incidental.