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[NMLUG] big disks
True, older controllers cannot handle sizes > 137G. (I'm not sure of the
mechanism involved). The 160G "drive" is really 160 billion bytes and df
reports GB (that's 1024^3; or 1024*1024*1024 = 1GB; whereas 1 billion
bytes is 1000*1000*1000). I think conner started that some 10 years ago
(first that I noticed it, anyway) to make thier disks look bigger than
those of the competition. Shame. Eventually, all manufacturers adopted
the billion as GB, So, a 160G disk is really 153GB (real).
Allan
James Hamilton wrote:
>
> I don't think the bios is involved, doesn't linux operate the controller itself
> and ignore the bios completely? I wonder if you've got an old controller or
> there's some other problem with the disk.
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:09:39AM -0600, Jody Harris wrote:
> > I have a 160G drive... (Maxtor?) df -h gives me 149G.
> >
> > I'm surprised that you're only seeing 137G.
> >
> > j
> >
> > Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> > >I just got a 250G Western Digital EIDE hard drive.
> > >Problem is that fdisk only sees like 137G.
> > >
> > >I looked at the insert, and they provide a little Windows program
> > >to prepare the disk for 250G formatting.
> > >
> > >What can I do from Debian?
> > >How can I tell if my bios can even handle such a disk?
> > >
> > > aaron
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