From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 23:47:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA07096 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.143]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA07065 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01005; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:47:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Chris Csanady cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My BIOS gives incorrect disk size.. In-Reply-To: <199609191824.NAA00209@friley216.res.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Chris Csanady wrote: > Has anyone had a problem like this before? My disk is actually 1002M, > but bios shows it as 1024/56/24 -- 672M. Is it more likely a disk > problem, or a bios problem? Your BIOS appears to be spitting a translated value. I would believe the disk, but remember that disk manufacturers go with 1MB=10^6 rather than 1MB=2^20 like the rest of the world. > I realize I could still just lie to it and keep the root partition below > 672M, but Im curios as to why this is. Id like to blame it on the disk, > because I hate the disk.. the former one crashed on me. :( Dooh! I can't explain it myself.... > ASUS SP3G w/onboard 53c810, Micropolis 4110S Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major