On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:49:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > > > > > I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I > > > need to get the full access > > > > > > Roderick: > > > > Are you sure that isn't an "Unformatted size"? I had that happen to me > > just recently: My HDD was advertised as a 10.4 gig drive, (they disn't say > > unformatted, but that is what it was. linux fdisk sees it as 9.5 gigs. > > Formatted capacity. > > > > I' sure this is this case. HD discs are 2.0MB unformatted and 1.44MB > formatted for PC (1.4MB for Mac).
No, this is an entirenly different issue. Using special programs, you can really get 2.0MB (2 * 1024 * 1024 = 2097152 bytes) on a floppy disk. Hard disk vendors generally use 1 GB = 1,000,000 bytes. Calculating "real" GB's from this gives you: 1,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 = 0.95367432 GB So, drive that is sold as 10GB really is only 9.54 GB. Remco
