From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 21:14:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD6B16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F36443FDF for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:14:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) hAR5EhBx006606; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:14:44 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:14:43 -0600 (CST) From: Larry Rosenman To: Dragoncrest In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127001559.01d21ec0@pop.voyager.net> Message-ID: References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127001559.01d21ec0@pop.voyager.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!: 160 gig only seen as 152 gig?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:14:49 -0000 On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: > I have a Freebsd workstation running 4.9 on an Epox 8k9A2+ MB and the > silly thing sees my brand new Western Digital HD as 160gig in the bios, but > BSD only sees it as 152gig. Now 8 gig isn't all that bad of a thing to > loose on a drive that big, but still, it's too weird that I would be unable > to get to that last 8 gig. When going into Fdisk I get the error that the > geometry on the drive is wrong and it suggests a much more appropriate, > albeit smaller, geometry. Is this something I'm doing wrong in setting up > the drive, or is this a limitation or problem in BSD? Or is it simply a > limitation of the hardware? I'm not going to cry over 8 gigs lost, but I > would really like to know if there's something that can be done to fix > this, or am I kinda SOL? Drive manufacturers use base 10 Gig (1,000,000,000), and FreeBSD uses base 2 gig (1024*1024*1024). Your drive is fine. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749