Bad Hard Drive

[Adil Kodian]

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From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Andrej
Marjan
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:58 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Bad Hard Drive


On January 5, 2005 04:35 pm, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> > That reminds me, the firewall in question can only take up to 37GB hard
> > drives, but nobody seems to carry them anymore. Is there anywhere I
> > could get a replacement drive for the (abovementioned, soon to fail)
> > drive? Or am I looking at getting an add-in PCI ATA controller that
> > supports 40GB+ hard drives?
>
> 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.)


sometimes - you also have a bios setting that allows you to limit the size
of any disk to 32G without any jumpering.

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