[ILUG] Disk size inconsistency

From: John Mc Donald (johnmcd at domain cs.may.ie)
Date: Wed 20 Oct 1999 - 14:47:29 IST


I just got a new 6490MB hard disk for my laptop, or so the bios
settings
tells me. When I load up fdisk on the other hand, I'm told its a ~6189MB

hard disk.

At least this is what I have calculated given that it displays
    789 cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes.
Am I reading this incorrectly? Do I actually have the full whack? And if
not
can I get it back?

John.

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