Bad Hard Drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:35:24PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
> It used to be common for hard drives to have jumper options telling them
> to lie about their capacity, precisely to handle such situations.  Meant
> that you couldn't use the extra, but at least the drive would work.  Don't
> know how common this is now -- haven't checked lately.  (Hmm, a Maxtor 40
> that I bought about a year ago has a "cap limit" jumper, and a Seagate 80
> bought a few days ago has a "limit to 32GB" jumper, so I think this
> capability is still current.  Best buy a replacement soon, though.)

As far as I understand it using the jumper makes the drives stuck at
32G, while using a softclip program makes it possible to use the full
size under smart OSs (like linux).

Lennart Sorensen
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