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? > > 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. > > 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 = 268435456 addressable sectors 268435456 * 512 = 137438953472 bytes / 1073741824 bytes = 128 GB A previous poster already mentioned that the ATA6 spec supports a 48 bit address, or 256 terabytes. Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc
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