Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:02:51 -0700 From: Travis Poppe <tlp@liquidx.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Harddrive size being reported incorrectly? Message-ID: <200512291202.51955.tlp@liquidx.org>
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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
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