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Re: SATA problem
Jason M. Leonard wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Bill Hacker wrote:
Jaime Andrés Ballesteros wrote:
Ok Bill, thanks for your answer. My SATA is a Seagate 7200.7 with
120 GB. FreeBSD 5.3 doesn't recognize the geometry of my disk.
FreeBSD force me to input another geometry and gives me 114 GB
and i think this cause the problem.
Nope. That is about all you will get. Working with a pair of
Western Digital 120 GB PATA the last 2 days, get about 114.4 GB
with either FreeBSD or DFLY. 200 GB Maxtors, PATA or SATA give me
about 190 GB or so.
Few HDD can (or should) give you 100% of the theorecticaly
available area.
For marketing purposes 1G == 1000M, so with (120 x 1000)/1024 we're
looking at a theoretically available area of 117G. No one really
makes 120G (117G) or 200G (195G) hard drives.
:Fu zz
Yes and 'not quite'.
Look at the slices and note that there is 'unused' (and unusable)
space showing. Drives will reserve space for a pool of replacements for
bad blocks. An OS will reserve a bit more.
Put the SCSI variant of any of the above on a sophisticated SCSI RAID
controller and use it unformated as a raw block device - the best way
for true hot-swap, wherein the MBR and partition table are stored in the
controller's NVRAM. You can get a lot closer to the published capacity.
But such controllers are far and away more expensive than the miniscule
extra space one might gain. That's not why you buy them.
Bill
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