From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 19:18:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DA816A41F; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:18:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D5743D53; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:18:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([69.172.31.117]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20051229191808.IIJE26442.mta13.adelphia.net@barbish>; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:18:08 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" To: "Travis Poppe" , , Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:18:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200512291202.51955.tlp@liquidx.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Harddrive size being reported incorrectly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:18:10 -0000 Just use FreeBSD's best guess and it will work fine. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Travis Poppe Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:03 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Harddrive size being reported incorrectly? Hello, I've recently purchased an IDE 320GB Western Digital WD3200JB-22KFA0 harddrive for use in my FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE fileserver. The BIOS in the system reports the drive as being a 320GB, but FreeBSD (dmesg) sees it as a 305245MB (or 298GB drive) in two separate machines. When it has finally been formatted for use, I get 289GB of available space. Now, I understand that harddrive manufacturers measure things differently (1000kbytes per gbyte rather than 1024, or something like that) than expected, but I've been told by a few people that I should be getting around 305-312GB of available space after the drive has been formatted. sysinstall had to adjust the drive geometry because the reported one was 'invalid'. I tried to manually specify the geometry BIOS reported, but this too was rejected as invalid. BIOS Geometry-CYL/HD/SECT: 65535/16/255 Am I really getting the full potential out of this drive, or is something wrong? Thanks, -- Travis Poppe IRC: tlp @ irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"