Deryk, If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will bring it back. I was helping a friend a while back recover some old computers for schools in the area. A lot of the drives had simular problems (although not as large a drive) 2 gig drives with 1 gig of "usable" space for example. We would low level format the drives and then "poof" they were back to normal most of the time.
James On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:33:11 -0800 Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Maxtor 16GB drive, whose only strangeness as far as I know, > is that it has 2100 cylinders. > > When I use fdisk on the drive I see reasonable numbers. When I > partition it using diskdrake everything also looks reasonable. > > BUT.....I have one partition of 384M (swap)plus two others of 9.7GB > and 5.9GB. When I format and mount these last two, the reported sizes > (and I have filled one up to confirmn this) are, respectively, 1.8GB > and 1.9GB - yes, that's right the smaller partition comes up as bigger > and bother are far too small. > > I've tried both Reiser and ext2 (for some reason, although diskdrake > offers me all sorts of other types, JFS, ext3 etc, the appropriate > mkfs files aren't installed) and both see only the sizes I quoted > above. > > Has anyone any idea of what is going on? I have two other drives > including a 40GB ATA-100 which works just fine, and has partitions > of 15GB and 23GB... > > I am baffled. > -- > |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| > |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | > |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | > |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | > > >
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