On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:38 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0500, Don Jackson wrote: > > Thanks, Digby... > > > > SOLVED THE PROBLEM! > > > > 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) > > Can't honestly say I understand why switching to 'cable select' would > have effected the reported drive capacity, especially if there had > been no jumper changes before the original loss of full capacity. > It could be that one of the master modes included an artificial > capacity reduction, and the drive has developed a fault that has > caused this to apply to both master modes, but not cable select. > > But whatever the reason, glad to hear it worked...
I remember a glitch in the firmware of some older Fujitsu IDE drives... Nope can't find it. But basically it came down to using newer cables on older drives causing signaling issues. IOW, if you used the New 80 wire cables on these drives with the settings manually specified (with any jumpers or such), that it would revert to a certain behavior. The fix was to let the cable position selection do its magic or to use 40 wire cables or both. I don't remember it being a limiting of space as it was more a slowing down to a slower access speed. Hey, anything from that era is ancient history by now. Wow, I should open a Museum... with all those 120MB-540MB IDE drives I have laying around. And those Wonderful 760MB-8.4GB disks too. I am seemingly collecting, Drives with size limitations... Suhweet. Now to start getting the 120GB and larger drives that only show as 120GB cause the motherboards/controllers only support 32-bit IDE addressing. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, Better, Faster: Linux Use Debian GNU/Linux, its a bazaar thing NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection.
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