K9 neo v2 seeing 200 gig hd's as 186

I have tried 2 different 200 gig hard drives and they both show up as 186 gigs. I am have used a couple of different 64 bit Linux Distros to verify my results. Is there a way to fix it. I would suspect hard drive issues but both of the drives I tried reported exactly the same amount of space. Thanks --Jake

Quote from: Bas on 10-February-09, 02:04:26
Mike, sorry, but it's fraud.....there is no way on earth that you can tell a computer that 199 715 979 264 bytes = 200GB unless you program it to lie!
Same as Microsoft is doing in Vista 32bit telling people usable memory is 4GB.
I'm sorry, but people should stop telling rubbish and tell the truth.
Don't knock the Vista32 ram thing, its made ram real cheap for the rest of us.

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