Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: sector size of 2068? | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:35:40 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Peter wrote: |> |> Asside from that, the answer was to put together a 486 and have adaptec's |> controller have fun with it. Works fine, but i'm a little bit perplexed |> as to its result. It being a "9.1 Gig scsi drive". The drive is a |> ST410800W in case you're wondering, and the full details are at |> (http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/st410800w.shtml).
There has been a narrow version of this drive, too.
|> |> What interests me about the resulting behavior is what fdisk says: |> Device Flag Begin Start End Blocks Id System |> /dev/sdb1 0 0 4923 8839246+ 83 Linux native |> /dev/sdb3 0 0 4923 8839246+ 5 Whole disk |> |> Is 8.43 gig really how much is left when you partition off a 9.09 gig |> drive? That just doesn't seem sane. Somebody tell me if I'm crazy.
That's (8839246*2+1)*512 bytes = 9051388416 (plus something less than one cylinder with this geometry). Given that drive manufacturers count 10^9 bytes to be one gig, it's really a 9.1 GB drive :-( If you count 2^10 = 1K however, it's a 8632 MB drive - or 8.43 GB.
Now take one of those 46.4 GB disks and do the same number shuffling :)
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