On 20 Jul, Paul Vigay wrote: > Is the Iyonix limited to the size of external USB drive it can access? > My dad has just bought an external USB drive of 250GB. I just formatted it > for him, using !SCSIForm, which correctly read the disc size and > parameters, initialising the drive fine. > On dismounting and re-mounting it appears on the iconbar with 233GB > available space. > All appears to work ok. Is this likely to cause problems later? Should I > have formatted it to a smaller size? I know internal drives have a 128GB > limit (if you want DMA) but I wasn't sure about external USB ones....? Surely you are aware of the concept of "marketing" GigaBytes? I would think that the advertised 250GB is made up of these, where a MB is 1000 bytes, and a GB is 1000 of those - making the drive 250*1000*1000 bytes, or around 233GB in real money... -- Brian Howlett ----------------------------------------------------------------- Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously? --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support