On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 07:33 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I bought an 80GB ATA drive and an external enclosure for it. > > > > I connect it on Sid and I see: > > > > ... > > SCSI device sdb: 66055248 512-byte hdwr sectors (33820 MB) > > ... > > > > running cfdisk /dev/sdb indeed shows 33819.73 MB. > > > > But the face of the disk (Seagate) says 80GB. > > > > Can anybody shed light on this? > > Thanks! > > > > Hugo > > > > > > See you guys aren't watching. > Where did you put the master/slave jumper? > This disk (Seagate: ST380211 Model: 0A) does not mark the pins. > And... I had it on the wrong set of pins! > Now it reads: > > ... > SCSI device sdb: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) > ... > > Watch out! This'll be on the test! Hardware limiting... oh yeah, this was for compatibility issues for older machines that would only USE drive that were 32GB or smaller. Neato. I thought that might be the problem, but I thought *NO* WAY would Seagate still be selling drives with this capacity limiter. I remember capacity limiters for 1GB drives to 528MB (when 540MB drives were the largest readable), and 2GB limiters on 3.2GB-8.4GB drives when a certain popular OS wouldn't read any drives larger than 2GB. Then was fixed to read larger drives, but only in 2GB chunks... HAHA. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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