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From: Rob Kendrick <n...@rjek.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.hardware
Subject: Re: Formatting 160G drive to 120G
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:26:33 +0100
Dentrassis <g...@dentrassis.com> wrote:

> How do I format a 160GByte drive to only be recognised as 120Gbyte 
> capacity? This is to be used in an an Iyonix so I don't want to go 
> over 120G size to keep the transfer speeds high.

I may be wrong, but I suspect you have to replace it with a 120GB one.
Formatting is a software thing, and transfer speeds are a hardware
thing; the hardware will still see it as a 160GB device.

B.