On Friday 31 January 2003 02:47 am, Gil Katz wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:45, Gil Katz wrote: > > Hi > > I bought a new WD 80GB disk and mount it with HardDrake and made one > > partition but when i look in KDiskFree i see that i got only 25 GB. > > What is wrong? > > Gil > > I'll refine the problem > DiskDrake see the disk as is (74 GB) > but KDiskFree see only 2.5 HD > Gil
Well WD is not a brand to buy since trhey OFFICIALLY support only Solaris and Windows, and besides they are hardware deficient on what it takes to do udma3 or higher and dangerous to use for your data at higher rates. Others can supply the info and links, but I will give you one... http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20000214_54.html#2 Basically WD disks are bad juju for linux. The real problem here may be one of mathematics, though. WD has this penchant for producing single-platter disks with one rack of heads each side (weigh it on a scale against competitive products and you will find the WD disk lighter) This means that the track number may be overflowing what Kdiskfree has available for track numbers with a resulting problem in viewing the disk. At one time the linux kernel would carve up big WD drives differently than the BIOS would with results that were just fantastic, but no other drives had ANY problems. This was true in Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 for certain, but was corrected in kernel 2.2.19. Now, stop trusting kdf and let's see what dmesg says. Post the results and we'll see what the kernel says about free space. If there is still a problem, most likely the kernel's math will have to be adjusted for the most recent WD "cheapness" shortcut and another item will have to be added to the kernel's internal blacklist of cantankerous drives requiring special handling. Civileme
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