From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 18:42:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721A91552B for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp111.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.111]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA22492; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:36:16 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Ladd J Epp Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Humm... > > Could this be the reason why my 10.1 Gig drive is only recognized as like > a 9.5 Gig drive in my OS, or does the OS need .6 Gig for addressing and > system information, etc..? Unlikely... it's probally differances in BIOS addressing and the cyl/sect/heads stuff. Typically you should expect to be within 10% of your hard drive size. Some manufactures also fudge the numbers a little... I.e. a 1.3 gig was magically a 1.5 gig the next day for a cost of $20 more... Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message