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[edlug] Ridiculously cheap 2TB USB external hard disk
[Posted to EdLUG and EdMUG]
'Evenin', All
I thought I would share this curiosity with you: I have an old
Seagate disk with a wopping 214MB capacity. Well, it was wopping-ish
when it came with a 486SX machine that ran Windows 85 (mid-1990s). I
hooked it up to my Linux box a while since and got the files I needed
off it. This evening I thought I would check to see if there really
was nothing else I want on the disk, and hooked it up to my iBook.
Mac OS X can't read it, apparently, so I opened Disk Utility, which
found the disk and reported it as a 2TB external USB disk! Does
anyone have an explanation for this? I was wondering if it had
anything to do with the smaller sector size (512B, I think) or the FAT.
Just curious, but I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts.
Best wishes,
Ian
PS A quick check with Google indicates that if I give it a good
polish, I might even be able to sell it for the price of something
with the same number of Gigs!
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