Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 01:00:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: kar_alerts@mglorysb.com Cc: Jason Oakley <waulok@bangrocks.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive Trouble Message-ID: <3B147E69.222F8CDA@iowna.com> References: <200105301222.f4UCMMo07008@svr.mgsb.domain> <01053012292600.06950@svr.mgsb.domain>
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K Karthik wrote: > > I have QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0 - 40GB HDD, FreeBSD recognized only 38GB. > I tried to format with other OSes like MS-Windows NT 4.0 which recognized > only 35GB (NTFS). > > Right now, I am using the HDD with FreeBSD , the 2GB is hiding somehere. > > Kernel recognized: > ad1: 38172MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0> [77557/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 This seems to come up from time to time ... 38172MB * 1024 = 39088128 * 1024 = 4002624#### bytes 4002624#### / 1000000000 = 40G It's the new math. Actually, it's marketing bullshit. Apparently the marketing gurus have taken it apon themselves to redefine what a gigabyte is so long as they can use the information to make their drives look bigger. In reality, that drive is only 37.2 GB. This is the same kind of nonsense that led the US government to require that monitor advertisements announce the true "viewable" screen size. FreeBSD is detecting it correctly. In addition, formatted size will be slightly smaller than unformatted size. -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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