Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:00:50 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Rick Fournier <rick@help-desk.ca> Cc: Cacerolazo <cacerolazo2001@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HD size trouble Message-ID: <3C8BC982.2000403@owt.com> References: <1015784908.87658.10.camel@zombie.rebelchat.org> <20020310145048.D99B.CACEROLAZO2001@yahoo.com> <1015791211.99491.20.camel@zombie.rebelchat.org>
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Rick Fournier wrote: > I think its actually the bios doing this like Doug & Salvo suggested, > > I also have this 60gig drive on some other pc and that shows up to > around 57gigs (which sounds normal) > > But this 40gig drive on the older pc is missing around 9gigs, (that dint > sound normal ;) Make sure you don't have the clj jumper turned on. That limits the drive to 4092 cylinders, which works out to about 32 GB with LBA. Kent > > Only prob is I cant seem to find the exact model number for this mb all > I know is its a shuttle and their website doesn't really match the > numbers on this board ;( > > ;oP > Rick, > > On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 13:53, Cacerolazo wrote: > >>I'll tell you what happened to me. >> >>Once, I had a partition in my disk that I hadn't seen. >> >>The second time, I remembered that a HD capacity is measured in >>1 000 000 bytes by the HD companies, >>while the O.S. uses the 1 048 576 value. >> >> That's why my 30GB disk really has 27.9GB. I don't know if this helps >>you, hope so. Bye. >> >>_________________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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