PERC 6i and Incorrect drive size

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

The drive manufactures measure drive size in base 10, i.e. a KB is 1000
bytes, a MB is 1000 KB, and a GB is 1000 MB.

Software measures drive size in base 2, i.e. a KB is 1024 bytes, a MB is
1024 KB, and a GB is 1024 MB.

That is the discrepancy that you are seeing.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Elazar Broad
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 3:27 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: PERC 6i and Incorrect drive size

I know this is slightly off topic. I have a PERC 6i in a PE1800, I 
have 2 WD 640GB drives connected to the controller. When booting, 
if I hit Ctrl+R to access the configuration utility, both drives 
only show as 609620MB as opposed to 640000. Any ideas are greatly 
appreciated...

Elazar

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