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As someone already has pointed out, this is probably the diffence between 540 million bytes and 515 Megabytes. (515 x 1.024 x 1.024 = 540). Anyway, in case you need a harddisk larger than your machine's BIOS recognizes, you do not necessarily need to get a BIOS upgrade. You can use software like Ontrack diskmanager to circumvent the problem, at least for DOS and Windows. Come to think of it, does anyone know about OS/2 and software like diskmanager? There is probably no solution for linux. I like the software approach because upgrading the BIOS can go wrong leaving you with a nonworking system. This then would have to be fixed by IBM or an IBM repair place... Thorsten