Curious problem. I'm trying to restore an old (1998) Fujitsu MPB3052AT Hard drive. It's listed as a 5.24gig drive. I pulled it last year from my kids computer because it wouldn't set up right. Did a low level (Fujitsu software). What's strange, is that as master it will only partition as a 2.1 gig. However, by playing around a while, I found that if I set it as "cable select", it will partition as a correct 5.2 gig! Went to the Fujitsu site for "alternative" jumper (there is one), but no change. I spent a couple of hours [it's become a challenge!] playing with the Fujitsu utilities and Fdisk. Even checked the board to make sure the jumper connections were not damaged. No big deal, just wanted to know if anyone has seen this?
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Jumper problems
- Thread starter micker377
- Start date
Haven't seen it. Primarily because I don't see that many Fujis, and I'm not into that size drive. But you've also issued a challange.
Master on primary with HD cable? Know you used HD for CS (98% certain), but there was the possibility that you used 40 wire as PM.
On some other than Fuji I've seen problems with what I'd consider noise where length of cable affected what apparently was geometry information coming back from the drive. The fact that the other machine had setup problems is probably the key. Something isn't getting reported correctly.
And on secondary?
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
Master on primary with HD cable? Know you used HD for CS (98% certain), but there was the possibility that you used 40 wire as PM.
On some other than Fuji I've seen problems with what I'd consider noise where length of cable affected what apparently was geometry information coming back from the drive. The fact that the other machine had setup problems is probably the key. Something isn't getting reported correctly.
And on secondary?
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
From the drive's manual at
page 3-12, the special mode gives the 2.1GB capacity you are seeing (4092 cylinders x 16 heads x 63 sectors x 512 bytes per sector)
If you are seeing the same capacity when its jumpered for the default Master Device setting (pins 1-2, 3-5), I suspect that the pin jumper decoding logic on the drive's controller is faulty.
page 3-12, the special mode gives the 2.1GB capacity you are seeing (4092 cylinders x 16 heads x 63 sectors x 512 bytes per sector)
If you are seeing the same capacity when its jumpered for the default Master Device setting (pins 1-2, 3-5), I suspect that the pin jumper decoding logic on the drive's controller is faulty.
- Thread starter
- #4
ED Fair: Old machine = 40 wire. Test setup = 80 wire. Same symptoms.
Freestone: Yeah, I noticed that (4092). As cable select, I get 10850 c, 15 h, 63 sec. It probably has logic problems (that's why I checked the pin-to-board connectors). I was hoping to use this drive in a USB 2.0 external box. Since it has to be set as master, I guess I'll continue my search of old drives.
Thanks for the input.
Freestone: Yeah, I noticed that (4092). As cable select, I get 10850 c, 15 h, 63 sec. It probably has logic problems (that's why I checked the pin-to-board connectors). I was hoping to use this drive in a USB 2.0 external box. Since it has to be set as master, I guess I'll continue my search of old drives.
Thanks for the input.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question