Zip Drives and BIOS settings?

[Beno]

Hi there everyone,

I just want to know why is it that my computer displays my ZIP USB 250 at 238 MB capacity instead of 250MB capacity??
Is it the way the CPU is reading the memory of the zip disk differently to what it is supposed to be or is it the fact that the zip drive manufacturers were not working with the power of 2 when they did there memory addressing??

Sorry if this is a silly question but...........
how do I access my BIOS settings if I am running Win98??

Thanks for your help

Ben

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[Paleo Pete]

Not sure about the zip drive size question, maybe someone else will have some ideas.

Accessing the BIOS depends on the computer. With the majority of machines, you press [Delete] during the memory count. Next time you boot up, look at the first screen, just below the memory it will have a line that says "Press Delete to enter setup" if this is the case.

Compaq: Look for the blinking cursor to move to the top right corner of the screen and press [F10]

Others:
[Esc] (Toshiba),
[F1] (Phoenix, late model PS/1 Value Point, 330s),
[F2] (NEC),
[Insert] (IBM PS/2 with reference partition),
[Tab] (Emachine),
Reset twice (some Dells, I assume this means the power reset button, not a keyboard key)
[Ctrl] [Alt] [+] (Misc computers)
[Ctrl] [Alt] [Enter] (some Dells)

I have others in the list, but mostly way obsolete...

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[4thandgoal]

I am not 100% on this, but I believe the zip has an allocation table of some sort that requires a certain amount of space, much like a hard drive.

[rkmca]

I think its like HD after format the capacity is the real space.
Like my 100M Zip says 95.7M

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[kenja]

You are correct, 4thandgoal, but I think Beno is even more correct. Iomega is using the hard drive manufacturers' old trick of calling one million bytes a megabyte (and one billion bytes a gigabyte). Therefore, disregarding file system overhead, the data from a gigabyte of RAM won't fit onto a gigabyte hard drive!