Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive Space - Am I Getting All I Should? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206041330050.2298-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <005b01c20b7e$6873f590$1b01a8c0@TAGALONG>
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> supposed to be an 80G drive but FBSD only sees 72G. :) I don't know > how it works but one never seems to get all the space that is > advertised in a drive. I suspect it has something to do with total > storage capacity vs. formatted storage capacity but that's a topic for > another discussion. Thanks for pointing me back in the right > direction. Through in a little BIOS fudging and you're about right. On IDE drives expect the actual size to be +/- 10% of the advertised space. These days it's usually on the minus side. :) But I remeber getting 1.4 GB off of a 1.2GB drive once. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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