> 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>
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