From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 12: 7:26 2003 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 38BDF37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:07:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD7F43E4A for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:07:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234DE69; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:07:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 679652FDD06; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:07:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:07:21 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: "Roman V. Mashak" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A Message-ID: <20030110200721.GV1196@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Lowell Gilbert , "Roman V. Mashak" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030110061803.GA14847@mrv.tusur.ru> <44bs2og502.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44bs2og502.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com / 2003-01-10 14:49:01 -0500: > "Roman V. Mashak" writes: > > > Hello. > > I've got the following problem. Is it normal, that FreeBSD (latest > > 4.7stable) is detecting my harddrive (see subj.) like this: > > > > ad1: 76319MB [155061/16/63] UDMA100 > > > > Although my BIOS detect hard-drive as 80GB capacity. > > I have Intel-d845ebg2 motherboard and BIOS version is PT84520A.86A.0009.P04 > > 76319MB is almost exactly 80x10^9 bytes, so that sounds fine. to expand on this: hard disk vendors lie to the customers. when you buy an "80 GB" disk you actually buy 80 * 1000 ^ 3 (Lowell, I don't think drive got *that* big yet :), not 80 * 1024 ^ 3. American hd buyers might try a class action lawsuit. :) -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message