It was not the fact that I was getting less than 80GB, it was the fact that diskdrake was reporting to me that I was using 96% of the drive when I told it to use 100%. (it does not matter what the size it reports, 100% is 100%) Also, the problem was that, although I could make partitions, I could not format them....
The problem was that the drive was set to do maximum sector transfers in the bios. Linux did not seem to like that. When the bios was set to allow 32 sector transfers, everything was fixed. It must be the IDE code in the kernel has a problem with sector transfers of greater than 32 with this particular drive. best regards Dalton On Tuesday 09 July 2002 5:38 pm, tom brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 06:55 am, Dalton Calford wrote: > > I have just purchased a Maxstor 80GB Hard drive (D740X-6L). > > The computer is a new P4 1.6 and the bios auto-detects it properly. > > It is mounted as hdc (it is master on second ide channel with no > > slave) When I use diskdrake, I can see the drive but, it reports it > > as being a 76GB drive (96% usage). > > 1000/1024 = ~97% HDD manufaturers take some creative license to > call a million bytes a MB, and then they tend to round up. Since one > K is 1024 bytes, an advertised 80 GB is really ~76GB. Diskdrake is > just tellin you the truth ;) Maxtor's no worse than any other > manufacturer, they all fib.
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