Re: Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!
Digby Tarvin wrote:
> When you say you have tried deleting a partition, do you mean you
> have tried deleting all partitions?
Yes. (only had one)
> I have also had drives of similar capacity to yours which came with
> a jumper option to limit the drive size to 2GB as a workaround for
> limitations in many of the operating systems of the time. Sometimes
> this made it appear as two 2GB drives (master and slave).
>
> Might be worth checking if there is any chance that the jumpers have
> been touched since you last had it working at 4GB.
(see below)
> Failing that, I would probably try using dd to blow away all the
> fdisk partitioning, and try partitioning again from scratch - just
> in case the geometry information stored there is over-riding what
> the hardware reports..
Thanks, Digby...
SOLVED THE PROBLEM!
I did the dd but still did not work ... the BIOS was still showing 2.1GB.
Changed the jumpers from "Master" to "C Sel" (cable select?) and behold,
BIOS then reported 4.3GB.
Just for the record, even the manual (online) from Fujitsu on this exact
drive (MPA3043AT) showed two different options for "Master", tried them
both, both reported 2.1GB. Don't know what is happening, but I'm happy
to have the full use of this rather small (by today's standards) drive.
(4 options of jumpers shown: master (two options), slave, and c-sel)
Thanks everyone!
Don
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