Re: [suse-sparc] 80GB IDE with SUSE 7.3 & Ultra 5

From: Martin Herren (sputnik@on-the-web.ch)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 01:33:06 PST

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:33:06 +0100
From: Martin Herren <sputnik@on-the-web.ch>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] 80GB IDE with SUSE 7.3 & Ultra 5

    Salvador Parra Rosas wrote:
    >
    > Hello. :)
    >
    > I'm trying to install SUSE 7.3 (standalone) with an 80GB 7200rpm
    > (maxtor) hard disk and i cant recognize the complete storage space.
    >
    > I did a "fdisk /dev/hda" with both "solaris" and "dos" disklabes but it
    > doesn't works. I can get only 74 or 32 GB total disk space.

    There are more than one way to report the size of a hard disk.
    Manufacturers usually use 1GB = 1'000'000'000 Bytes (=10^9) (so the disk
    seems bigger)
    OS's or application programms usually use 1GB = 1'073'741'000 Bytes (=
    2^30)
    And then you can also report the unformated or the formated capacity.
    This gives several possible "sizes" for one disk, depending how you
    measure it !
    So i would say that 74GB probably is your whole disk.

    Hope that helps

    Martin 

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