Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:26:53 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su> Cc: freebsd-quiestions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda 9 (11/9) gb specs? Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.95.961217100959.5112A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199612170944.MAA03416@megillah.demos.su>
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On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Mikhail A. Sokolov wrote: > I wonder if someone can help me with the following. I have Seagate UW SCSI > Barracuda 9 9gb (11 unformatted) drive to rape. Since it's pretty new one, > I've been checking it with 2.1.5/2.1.6/2.2-alpha/3.0-current, it works. > (Ehm, now installing 2.1.0r, just to test ;-)) > The only problem is that when using default geometry, I lack some > 400/500mb, i.e. only 8600+mb seen, see dmesg data at the end. > > The question finally is: can any of you name the geometry of it and > is it ok that this disk is seen it's 9gb unformatted, and 8,6+ formatted? It's all seen, you've just run into the drive manufacturer's marketing hype. While the rest of the industry considers 1,048,576 bytes a megabyte the drive industry calls 1,000,000 bytes a megabyte. Their gigabytes are 73741824 bytes less than everyone else's. :( > sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 8683MB (17783112 512 byte sectors) 17783112 * 512 = 9104953344 A 9.1 gig by their standards. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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