Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-25 08:54:32, schrieb Miles Bader: > BTW, any good recs for drives? Is storagereview.com basically the best > place to look? > > I'm still using a 4.5 GB SCSI disk (with 50-pin interface) as my main > storage, and one these days would like to upgrade to something a bit > more modern (wi

Re: Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-23 17:03:12, schrieb Don Jackson: > (4 options of jumpers shown: master (two options), slave, and c-sel) 1) Master alone 2) Master with Slave present 3) Slave 4) Cable Select Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Coun

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Don Jackson wrote: [snip] 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 ;-) Ah, yes, a full-height 5 1/4" drive. I have one

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-24 Thread Miles Bader
BTW, any good recs for drives? Is storagereview.com basically the best place to look? I'm still using a 4.5 GB SCSI disk (with 50-pin interface) as my main storage, and one these days would like to upgrade to something a bit more modern (with only 10x or 20x the space :-)... However, given that

Re: Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-24 Thread Don Jackson
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 4.3G

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-24 Thread Greg Folkert
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 t

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-23 Thread Digby Tarvin
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 (M

Re: Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-23 Thread Don Jackson
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 > limitatio

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB)

2006-04-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the BIOS, fdisk, etc., all are now reporting a capacity of 2.1 GB. If the BIOS is reporting 2.1 I don't think partitioning is going to help. Try changing BIOS settings (LBA, ...) or jumpers. HTH Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't unde

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB)

2006-04-23 Thread Digby Tarvin
When you say you have tried deleting a partition, do you mean you have tried deleting all partitions? I did have a problem recently after installing on a drive with 6 partitions and plenty of unpartitioned space at the end. For some reason the partitioner used during installation (I can't remember

4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB)

2006-04-23 Thread Don Jackson
This is not Debian or Linux specific, but I hope that some experts on this list can point me in the right direction. I have a Fujitsu MPA3043AT IDE hard disk that formerly had a capacity of about 4.3 GB. Hate to throw it away as it can still perform useful service in an older computer I have. In