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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:25:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To:        <bhyde@pobox.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install
Message-ID:  <31133.192.85.47.2.1044318316.squirrel@new.host.name>
In-Reply-To: <BC506351-37CC-11D7-BDE4-003065CC5042@pobox.com>
References:  <BC506351-37CC-11D7-BDE4-003065CC5042@pobox.com>

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> I casually installed a 200 Gig dis on a 4.3-stable freebsd system.  I
> quickly followed the directions in
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-
> adding.html section "12.3.2.2 Dedicated".  df -g now reports that the
> resulting disk is only 124 Gig, so I'm sad and confused.  I expected
> some shrinkage, but not quite so much.   ideas?

How current is your motherboard?  If it doesn't support the ATA-6 spec
there's a limit of 120-140GB (don't remember the details.

KeS



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