I can't see the full capacity of my scsi hdd. 2

[slees]

I plug my scsi hdd into a AHA 2940UW scsi card and my 181gig hdd is only seen as a 43gig. This is the second scsi card that I have tried and still does not see the whole drive. What am I missing?

 

[electronicsfreak]

Many hard drives have a jumper on the back that is for limiting them to a certain size like 40 or 80GB. MIght check that.

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[wahnula]

OR there is a broken head or non-functioning platter. How does the BIOS see it? Is it a new drive? If used there may be a protected partition, to wipe it use my fave, DBAN

http://dban.sourceforge.net

(Ijust LOVE typing "Autonuke") just make sure there are no other drives attached to the machine when you do this.

Tony

 

[sclee98]

I have put this same drive into a different PC and it recognizes the whole drive.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Update your bios then. Find the newest version of your bios and flash it.

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[electronicsfreak]

By the way, be very careful when flashing the bios. If you flash it wrong or use the wrong version, your computer becomes a paperweight.

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon