On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 01:49, Carlos Eduardo Coelho Baptista wrote: > hello everybody! i have a Powermac 8500/150 with 2 hard drives + cdrom, > as shown :
[...] > SCSI device sda: 12594960 512-byte hdwr sectors (6449 MB) [...] > SDA is a 6,4gb HD with 12594960 sectors .... (with 6449mb size as shown > in dmesg) > > but when i run pdisk or try to format it using disk initializer via > MacOS , they detect this 6,4gb hard disk as a 6,1gb hard disk , what can > it be? [...] > Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=12594959 (6.0G) Do the math yourself: 12594959 * 512 / 1024^3 = 6.005744457 12594959 * 512 / 1000^3 = 6.448619008 Looks like the kernel uses 1000 instead of 1024, just like HD manufacturers. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
