From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 13: 1: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B547837B402 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:00:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28780; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:00:51 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8BC982.2000403@owt.com> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:00:50 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Fournier Cc: Cacerolazo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HD size trouble References: <1015784908.87658.10.camel@zombie.rebelchat.org> <20020310145048.D99B.CACEROLAZO2001@yahoo.com> <1015791211.99491.20.camel@zombie.rebelchat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Rick Fournier wrote: > 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 ;) Make sure you don't have the clj jumper turned on. That limits the drive to 4092 cylinders, which works out to about 32 GB with LBA. Kent > > 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 >> -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message