From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 21:53:13 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 43F1816A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from endif.cjb.net (65-101-229-205.dnvr.qwest.net [65.101.229.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3B6943FDF for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:53:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 14548 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2003 05:53:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Nov 2003 05:53:08 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:53:07 -0700 From: Robin Schoonover To: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <20031126225307.1f74e56f.end@endif.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127001559.01d21ec0@pop.voyager.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:53:13 -0000 On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:14:43 -0600 (CST), Larry Rosenman wrote: > 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. > > Hmm. I don't think this question is in the FAQ, but it seems asked often enough. At least I didn't see it in there. Maybe it should get added... I'm not in anyway indicating I want to help document, because I don't want to end up get stuck doing that (I'll start feeling I have an obligation, and yadda-yadda). I'm just trying to throw the idea out so someone else will do it :P -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # I'm encased in the lining of a pure pork sausage!! #