tom brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 06:55 am, Dalton Calford wrote:
> > I have just purchased a Maxstor 80GB Hard drive (D740X-6L). > > The computer is a new P4 1.6 and the bios auto-detects it properly. > > It is mounted as hdc (it is master on second ide channel with no > > slave) When I use diskdrake, I can see the drive but, it reports it > > as being a 76GB drive (96% usage). > 1000/1024 = ~97% HDD manufaturers take some creative license to > call a million bytes a MB, and then they tend to round up. Since one > K is 1024 bytes, an advertised 80 GB is really ~76GB. Diskdrake is > just tellin you the truth ;) Maxtor's no worse than any other > manufacturer, they all fib. Actually, none of them fib. See URL below. -- "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions . . . upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." James Madison Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/partitioningindex.html#WHYSMAL
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