From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 23: 3:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netsrvr.ami.com.au (netsrvr.ami.com.au [203.55.31.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D140A37B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 23:03:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summer@os2.ami.com.au) Received: from dugite.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:root@c0s04.ami.com.au [203.55.31.69]) by netsrvr.ami.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09665 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:02:53 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (possum.os2.ami.com.au [192.168.1.6]) by dugite.os2.ami.com.au (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f4U62oO08008 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:02:50 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (summer@localhost) by possum.os2.ami.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4U62or31180 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:02:50 +0800 Message-Id: <200105300602.f4U62or31180@possum.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive Trouble In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 May 2001 01:00:25 -0400." <3B147E69.222F8CDA@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:02:49 +0800 From: John Summerfield 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 > K Karthik wrote: > > > > I have QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0 - 40GB HDD, FreeBSD recognized only 38GB. > > I tried to format with other OSes like MS-Windows NT 4.0 which recognized > > only 35GB (NTFS). > > > > Right now, I am using the HDD with FreeBSD , the 2GB is hiding somehere. > > > > Kernel recognized: > > ad1: 38172MB [77557/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 > > This seems to come up from time to time ... > 38172MB * 1024 = 39088128 * 1024 = 4002624#### bytes > 4002624#### / 1000000000 = 40G > It's the new math. > Actually, it's marketing bullshit. Apparently the marketing gurus have > taken it apon themselves to redefine what a gigabyte is so long as they Ohm I don't know about that. How long ago did the French decide Kilometre means 1000 metres? The suffixes K, M, G for x1000, x1000000 and x1000000000 predate the DP industry by a while. I've been in the DP industry for longer than Unix has existed, and on reflection, I think we got it wrong. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message