PE> ....... Now I have replaced my Maxtor 200 meg with a Conner 407 meg
PE> (said 420 on the case!), and now I'm back on the air. It is a Conner
PE> CFS420A. I don't know how fast it is. 

RM> New fangled descriptions they have for these drives to sell them
RM> better. In the old days, (before you were born?) 407 megs meant
RM> 407*1024*1024, ie 426,770,432 bytes. Not any more, it seems. Now a
RM> meg means 1E6 in decimal. Sad. It's caught me too.
KR> manufacturers almost always specify UNformatted capacity. pretty
KR> irrelevent to ide, but it does look better.

Not usually anymore, most report the formatted capacity in 1e6 style
megabytes. Western Digital, Maxtor, Conner etc for example. In fact its
uncommon to see an unformatted capacity quoted at all with a modern IDE.

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