Greg Folkert wrote: > 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. >
Just as a followup for the archives if anyone ever seeks a solution, I am using the newer 80 wire cable on this Fujitsu MPA3043AT drive since that is the cable specified and supplied for the Gateway E3400. That may be it!!! If I recall correctly, used 40 wire cable before on this drive in another computer. BTW, if anyone is interested in real museum pieces, I have some 10 MB (yes, Megabyte) drives first used with the IBM PC, and even before that several 8" floppy drives (non-PC) along with hundreds of 8" floppy disks ;-) Thanks again, everyone, the Fujitsu drive is merrily purring along with Debian installed. Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
