Strange HDD size and loud combo-drive

Hi there,
just one question about my new iBook.
I ordered one with 80 GB hard drive and a combo-drive, since I do not need to burn dvds with a laptop.
But finder shows just a capacity of 74 gb. I do know that the hard drive vedors use the decimal system instead of bits, so 80 gb is a bit less. But ought it be about 78 GB?!
Furthermore my combo drive is really loud. Is this a normal behaviour?
Just another issue I faced... I ran the hard drive checking programm (sorry, do not know the correct english name...) It told me there were wrong volume acessrights. I did not change anything, just looked around and surfed with safari, so can there be wrong acess-rights?
I made another volume-acessrights-scan again today, there are still errors. Same with "Check volume", but I read here in the board, thats because I have to run the utility from the tiger-install-disc.
Alex

Welcome, Rumo. You have posted on the G3 iBook board, but we are friendly here, too.
Your stated drive size sounds about right. Remember,
1 gigabyte = 1 073 741 824 bytes so the actual functional capacity is always less than the manufacturer's stated size.
I can't say whether G4 combo drives are loud, but G3 ones are.
Finally, it is normal to find that a lot of permissions need repairing when you run Disk Utility for the first time. And, there are always recurring notices "we are using special permissions." Don't bother with "verify permissions" (access rights) on Disk Utility--head straight for "repair permissions." You are correct in saying that you cannot Repair/Verify your hard drive when you are booted from it.

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