Re: SCSI hard drives with wrong size!
> 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)
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
The disk sizes in blocks match. pdisk calculates the disk size
differently from MacOS (they are basically cheating, just dividing the
block size by 10^9 doesn't take into account that a kB is 1024 bytes, and
so on).
Move along, there's nothing here to see...
Michael
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