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dompros

dompros

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Oct 3, 2001
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My seagate cheeta SCSI ultra wide, is 14 gigs, my checks say that only 8 gigs are available?

What's the deal, only an 8 gig partition?
How do I get the other 6 gigs?

I'm only using 3 gigs, so, it's no big deal, but what the heck!

Regards...
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You hit a BIOS limit. Time for a BIOS upgrade or live with the problem. Ed Fair
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How odd...

It had 14 gb available until I formatted it and reinstalled the OS.

Board: First International Computer, Inc. AZ11 PCB 1.X
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 06/26/2000

8.40 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
5.15 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SEAGATE ST118202LC [Hard drive] (8.40 GB) -- drive 0

The thing is, I've been running it for a couple of years and I know it's a 14gb drive.
The seagate website says so too...

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Which OS are you using btw?
~ The day I think I know it all, i'm changing careers ~
 
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Did you originally use a drive overlay program to get the full size?
And what does CMOS indicate?
Ed Fair
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OS is win98 first ed.
There isn't much to see in cmos...
There are no primaries or slaves, Only the floppy, the scsi hd and a sony scsi cd burner.
I used the adaptec scsi card, installation utility to install.
running a AMD T-bird 1000 mz cpu, 512 mb of mem.
5 fans in an aluminum case. 300watt supply.

I was running a dual hd system booting with a maxtor 15gig ide drive, this started when I decided to install the maxtor in my wifes PC. I transfered the data from the maxtor to the seagate and the scsi drive went into failure mode!

After 3 weeks of playing with it I finally formatted and went thru the routines, left out the ide drive. It's trouble free but for the missing 5 gigs....?

Regards, dompros
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I had a brain fizzle. You don't see HD size with SCSI, at least not in CMOS.
Do you have the SCSI BIOS active. Can't remember what Adaptec BIOS allows (I'm 100%SIIG) but with it active fdisk should report back what it can see. Ed Fair
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Have you tried booting to a windows 98 startup disk? Do that and run fdisk out of curiousity and check the percentage of the drive... ~ The day I think I know it all, i'm changing careers ~
 
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