SATA problem

[Jason M. Leonard]

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.

:Fuzz