Re: SCSI hard drives with wrong size!
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.
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