40GB Diamondmax plus8 size being reported incorrectly?

[DieHardware]

I just bought a 40GB Maxtor Diamondmax plus 8 HDD. FDISK(and Max Blast II) reports it's size as 32248MB, even acounting for the 1024MB per GB isn't that low? The BIOS for two different board I tried this drive on report it's size as 33820MB.

Anyone else have one of these drives? What does FDISK report your HDD's size as?

 

[waylman]

I do not have one of these but that is very low. 32248MB/33820MB's are both low. You should only be losing 1 GB or so once the math is done....... 33820MB is actually a 33GB drive......have you formatted it yet?

 

[PaveHawk]

Check the jumper on the back of the drive and make sure its not set to 32 gig setting for older motherboard support.

 

[DieHardware]

Yeah PaveHawk thats what it was, Damn it came out of a sealed bag and I never even thought about the jumpers 'till after I f'ed around with it in a couple of different PCs for an hour.