HD 40 GB but 31 GB instead

John Wendel jwendel at fnmoc.navy.mil
Mon Oct 27 22:32:12 UTC 2003


On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:09:38 -0500 -- Randy Eckenrode
<eckenrode.8 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 15:07, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > I don't think so. Unless you haven't used the entire disk
> > when creating the partition with fdisk, what you've got is
> > all you can have. Here's for instance disks from various
> > vendors sold as 80GB, 120GB and 60GB respectively...
> I don’t think so.  A 40 GB drive should be around 37.3 GiB,
> not 31 GiB.
> 

You are correect, 31 GiB is a BIOS limitation. He needs a BIOS
update (if available), or a separate PCI IDE controller.

-- 

John Wendel





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