CompuServe Messages

Scott, You will always loose some space for each partition due to bad-sector maps and other "system" infokept on the drive itself. SO the unformatted capacity is larger than the formatted capacity (unformatted – bad sectors – system storage = formatted cpacity). The other thin is how the "mega" is counted. Some manufactures count 10**6, others count 1024 * 1024. There is a difference ;^} You ust have lots of RAM. With 5 partitions you must be using up about about 50k-100k just for the HD. I ran the calculation once and forget what it was but the "lost" memory per partition was the total of the SCSI device, the number of buffers specified for the partition in the mountlist * 512, and the HD .info file plus a couple k of system message list space per partition. wmc