Re: [gentoo-user] the same hard-drives, different number of sectors...

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
On 27 October 2011 20:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jarry wrote: >> Hi, perhaps someone could explain this to me: >> >> I have bouth two the same hard-drives. The same model >> (Hitachi HUA722050CLA330), the same firmware (JP20A3EA), >> the same size (500GB). Well, no

Re: [gentoo-user] the same hard-drives, different number of sectors...

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, perhaps someone could explain this to me: > > I have bouth two the same hard-drives. The same model > (Hitachi HUA722050CLA330), the same firmware (JP20A3EA), > the same size (500GB). Well, not exactly. Both hdparm > and fdisk report different n

Re: [gentoo-user] the same hard-drives, different number of sectors...

2011-10-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, perhaps someone could explain this to me: > > I have bouth two the same hard-drives. The same model > (Hitachi HUA722050CLA330), the same firmware (JP20A3EA), > the same size (500GB). Well, not exactly. Both hdparm > and fdisk report different nu

[gentoo-user] the same hard-drives, different number of sectors...

2011-10-27 Thread Jarry
Hi, perhaps someone could explain this to me: I have bouth two the same hard-drives. The same model (Hitachi HUA722050CLA330), the same firmware (JP20A3EA), the same size (500GB). Well, not exactly. Both hdparm and fdisk report different number of sectors (976771055 versus 976773168). Although no