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160GB Maxtor seen as 127GB?
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Posted by: Graffe

I understand that the TiVo will only see 137GB due to the PCI bus and that is fine.. I'm an overkill kind of person anyway. But when I boot up my PC with the linux CD, it is reading the drive as follows:

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hdb: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/2048 KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63
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Now that is perfect.. but, when I bless the drive, the outcome is:

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Drive has been blessed.
This drive was determined to be a 127GB drive.
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Does this seem correct? Am I drunk and not using my melon hard enough? Or can I just drop it in as the B drive and call it good like I want to?

Thank in advance for any helpful replies.

Posted by: Otto

127 GB is correct. The binary/decimal definitions are messing with you.

128 GB Binary = 137 GB Decimal.

And no, I refuse to use Gibibytes or whatever stupid name they're pushing. Not a chance in hell. The rest of the world can just change the definition of Giga as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Graffe

Thanks so much for the speedy reply Otto! Off to start the backup procedure for drive A *grumble*.. but if I don't, I know that karma will bite me in the keester and I'll be staring at a grey screen upon initial bootup.

Thanks again,
Graffe

Posted by: Worf

quote:
Originally posted by Otto
The rest of the world can just change the definition of Giga as far as I'm concerned.

Odd, I thought Giga always was 10^9... it was the computer folks who decided to redefine them... (I believe it also was pronounced "jiga" - yes, those people in Back to the Future got the pronounciation correct. "giga" was something mispronounced by the same as well).

Posted by: ADent

Technically the base 2 version (based on the old 1024 = 1K assignment) is GiB.

So 128GiB = 137GB

See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html .