JSI Tip 1311. When I view properites of a newly formated floppy, it shows only 1.38MB?
Jerold Schulman
May 14, 1999
1 Min Read
The display is actually showing the amount of disk space, per the following formula:
(Allocation units * number of bytes in each allocation unit)/1024/1024
a 1.44MB Diskette would be:
(2847*512)/1024/1024 = 1.39013671875 megabytes.
Due to rounding problems:
2847*512/1024=1423.5
1423/1024=1.389648438
1.38MB.
The same display also shows 1,457,664 bytes total capacity:
2847*512
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