New 3tb hdd thinks it's 801.6 GB

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday, 26. September 2012. 22.08.50 George R Goffe wrote:
> I had tried what you suggested but the system still reports 801.6 GB.
> 
> I have seen some mention of firmware problems but the asus.com web site
> seems to have firmware carefully hidden.
> 
> What are your thoughts?
[snip] 
> fdisk -l /dev/sdb

The fdisk utility is known to not work properly on devices larger than 3TB. 
You want to use parted (or some gui version like gparted) to create a new 
partition table.

HTH, :-)
Marko