Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:47:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My BIOS gives incorrect disk size.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960919234546.718c-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609191824.NAA00209@friley216.res.iastate.edu>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Chris Csanady wrote: > Has anyone had a problem like this before? My disk is actually 1002M, > but bios shows it as 1024/56/24 -- 672M. Is it more likely a disk > problem, or a bios problem? Your BIOS appears to be spitting a translated value. I would believe the disk, but remember that disk manufacturers go with 1MB=10^6 rather than 1MB=2^20 like the rest of the world. > I realize I could still just lie to it and keep the root partition below > 672M, but Im curios as to why this is. Id like to blame it on the disk, > because I hate the disk.. the former one crashed on me. :( Dooh! I can't explain it myself.... > ASUS SP3G w/onboard 53c810, Micropolis 4110S Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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