Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:14:43 -0600 (CST) From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!: 160 gig only seen as 152 gig?? Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.4.58.0311262313400.6558@lerami.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127001559.01d21ec0@pop.voyager.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127001559.01d21ec0@pop.voyager.net>
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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
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