The folling link should enlighten you:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/st5850a.html
Mehmet Ozdemir
> I've just come across the most evil hd I've ever discovered. It's
> a segate ST5808A. 850MB Drive.
>
> It's got this thing called Dual Drive emulation mode which I'd
> never heard of
> before. appraent;ly to overcome the old 540MB limit. It sort of splits
> the drive in half and
> pretends to be the master and the slave drive in the system. Now the
> question is if you put it
> in a machine with a master drive any ideas how you tell it which side of
> it's own drive you want to
> view :)
>
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