Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:57:42 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Roman V. Mashak" <mrv@tv2.tomsk.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A Message-ID: <20030110205742.GA11836@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030110061803.GA14847@mrv.tusur.ru> References: <20030110061803.GA14847@mrv.tusur.ru>
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:18:03PM +0700, Roman V. Mashak wrote: > 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 Yes. The OS (and most other things in computers) define MB as 1024*1024 bytes (and GB as 1024 MB), while harddisk manufacturers use MB= 1000*1000 bytes (and GB as 10^9 bytes) (which is actually the technically correct definition). If you calculate 76319*1024*1024 you will find that it is almost exactly 80 * 10^9, so everything is correct. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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