On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Michael Moore wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:29 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > >> the Maxtor_6L120P0 is purportedly a 120gb disc, indeed the one i have >> here says so on its label, however fdisc claims it only has 33.8 GB. >> fdisk seems to have a command to change the number of cylinders, i >> tried that, whereupon fdisk shows the given new number of cylinders, >> but still shows the total number of sectors as unchanged, and won't >> create a partition that goes beyond the original number of sectors, so >> what's the point of the fdisk cylinders command, it's not at all clear >> to me. do i really have a 120gb disc here? if so, how do i start >> using all 120gb? any clues/ideas? > > Are your jumpers on the right pins? Don't some disks have jumpers to > limit the size they report so that old BIOSes can handle them? > > Also, google found something familiar > http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1534455 (searched for > "33.8 gigs") Interesting -- there's a 32GB switch? So, 32 GiB is... $ echo "2^35" | octave -qfH ans = 3.4360e+10 34.36 GB, which is a little more than what you see, probably because of some kind of overhead. That's probably it -- jumpers on wrong pins. Mike