Alan Hodgson wrote:
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Luis campo lcr_2505@hotmail.com wrote:
Another supplementary question, because CentOS 4.7 only recognizes 273GB if the disk is 300GB?
CentOS recognizes the full size of the disk. Your disconnect is between what the manufacturer sells as 300GB, and the actual size of the disk.
disk drives are sold by decimal gigabytes, so "300GB" is 300,000,000,000 bytes.
software tends to use binary gigabytes, so 273GB is 273 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024, or 293,131,517,952 bytes, which is *about* 300GB (decimal)
btw, in an earlier email, I believe you said you had a HP DL-something.... if that has an HP "SmartArray" hardware raid controller, its quite likely using the 'cciss' driver (/dev/cciss/c0t0d0 ..) and I'm not sure the previously-offered advise of cat "...." > /proc/scsi/scsi is applicable.