8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[jdow]

From: "TNWestTex" <mcforum at bellsouth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/22 13:16
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> Steven Ringwald-3 wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:29 -0600, Mikkel wrote:
>>> My experience with ZIP disks was that if they came formatted, or if
>>> you used the Omega formatting tools, they always had one partition.
>>> What partition was an indication of what system they were formatted
>>> for. Windows was partition 4, Linux was partition 1, and I don't
>>> remember what MAC used. (It might not have used a DOS-type partition
>>> table.)
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>>> I also remember removable platter SCSI drives that pre-dated ZIP
>>> drives, but I can not remember what they were called. The didn't have
>>> nearly as much capacity, and the cartridges were larger. I think I
>>> still have a couple in storage somewhere...
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>>> I believe you are talking about the IoMega Jaz drive...
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega_Jaz
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> Jaz at 1G was a latecomer, Iomega Bernoulli at 44M. several years before 
> Zip
> drives.
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> Robert McBroom

And they tripped an interesting chip bug in the Adaptec SCSI chips
that we were using for the Microbotics hard disk controller for Amigas.
That was a bastard to track down until somebody smuggled to me the
Adaptec internal bugs tradeoff sheet for Rev C, D, and E of that chip.
No, none of them had "no bugs". It was a tradeoff.

(Otherwise, at the time, that controller and some nice 300 Meg SCSI
drives from a now defunct manufacturer in The Valley (San Fernando)
made for the fastest read and write times on disk tests that anybody
had published for ANY machine mortals could afford.)

{^_^}   (Yeah, I'm THAT Joanne Dow.)