From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 12:13:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dark.rebelchat.org (1meg-mtl-adsl172.securenet.net [216.113.17.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC1137B400 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:13:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from zombie (zombie [192.168.1.20]) by dark.rebelchat.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2AKDV900499; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:13:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rick@help-desk.ca) Subject: Re: HD size trouble From: Rick Fournier To: Cacerolazo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020310145048.D99B.CACEROLAZO2001@yahoo.com> References: <1015784908.87658.10.camel@zombie.rebelchat.org> <20020310145048.D99B.CACEROLAZO2001@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 10 Mar 2002 15:13:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1015791211.99491.20.camel@zombie.rebelchat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think its actually the bios doing this like Doug & Salvo suggested, I also have this 60gig drive on some other pc and that shows up to around 57gigs (which sounds normal) But this 40gig drive on the older pc is missing around 9gigs, (that dint sound normal ;) Only prob is I cant seem to find the exact model number for this mb all I know is its a shuttle and their website doesn't really match the numbers on this board ;( ;oP Rick, On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 13:53, Cacerolazo wrote: > > I'll tell you what happened to me. > > Once, I had a partition in my disk that I hadn't seen. > > The second time, I remembered that a HD capacity is measured in > 1 000 000 bytes by the HD companies, > while the O.S. uses the 1 048 576 value. > > That's why my 30GB disk really has 27.9GB. I don't know if this helps > you, hope so. Bye. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Rick Fournier GPG Key: 0x31846E22 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message