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Subject: Re: New IBM IDE drive recognized as 40 GB but is 80 GB
To: Martin.Rode@zeroscale.com (Martin Rode)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:47:10 -0800 (PST)
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From: barryn@pobox.com (Barry K. Nathan)
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> We have bought a new IDE hard drive:
> 
> hdb: IC35L040AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
             ^^ 40GB (well, according to IBM, "41.17GB")

Look here if you don't believe me:
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/d120gxp/d120gxpmod.htm
 
> This is wrongly recognized as 40GB (should be 80GB) drive:
[snip]
> [root@apu /root]# cat /proc/ide/hdb/capacity
> 80418240           <--------------------------------- this is correct
> [root@apu /root]#
> 
> shows the right capacity.

80418240 512-byte sectors is about 40GB.

The kernel is reporting the correct size... 40GB.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>