Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:14:06 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install Message-ID: <20030204021406.GH87743@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <31133.192.85.47.2.1044318316.squirrel@new.host.name> References: <BC506351-37CC-11D7-BDE4-003065CC5042@pobox.com> <31133.192.85.47.2.1044318316.squirrel@new.host.name>
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--cfJ13FhsvNR/yOpm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:25:16PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > I casually installed a 200 Gig dis on a 4.3-stable freebsd system. I > > quickly followed the directions in > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks- > > adding.html section "12.3.2.2 Dedicated". df -g now reports that the > > resulting disk is only 124 Gig, so I'm sad and confused. I expected > > some shrinkage, but not quite so much. ideas? >=20 > How current is your motherboard? If it doesn't support the ATA-6 spec > there's a limit of 120-140GB (don't remember the details. >=20 > KeS Yes, this sounds a lot like he's hit the limit of the <ATA5 spec. Limits were: cylinders: 65536 (16 bits) heads: 16 (6 bits) sectors: 256 (8 bits) total: 28 bits 2^28 =3D 268435456 addressable sectors 268435456 * 512 =3D 137438953472 bytes / 1073741824 bytes =3D 128 GB A previous poster already mentioned that the ATA6 spec supports a 48 bit address, or 256 terabytes. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --cfJ13FhsvNR/yOpm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+PyHuWZYS9EJQoEwRAlVyAKDWnlc4/PiAf5R0/zmbneKmClfZrQCeOp2x YtS1jE8i0/wCpEvD+31wWe0= =xgan -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cfJ13FhsvNR/yOpm-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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