Re: Quantum XP39100S Atlas II and 8GB limit (not int 13h ext'd related?)

And your question is?

"da9000" <4donis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1180478616.791970.32400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have the above mentioned hard drive, and according to intelligent-
peripheral.com/manuals/quantum_ucg.pdf (because, believe me, neither
Seagate nor Maxtor seem to know or have anything to do with this disk
and many other Quantum disks, even though they paid lots of millions
to buy out the company, even if indirectly), has more than 17,000,000
LBA sectors (that's 17 million plus 512byte sectors), giving a
capacity of 9.1GB or so. More than 8GB, that's the point.

Anyways, I've not been able to have *any* of the PC SCSI cards that I
have to recognize it as a greater than 8GB drive, and they all *do*
have int 13h extended support (which shouldn't matter, because

all I want to do is low level format it

So what's keeping you (rethorical).
Btw, never Low Level Format a drive unless you need a different sector size.

-- aka: I'm not dealing with any OS at the moment nor trying to boot from it).

Cards I've tried: Adaptec ISA: AHA-1542B, PCI: AHA-2940, AHA-2940AU,
AHA-2940U, Buslogic BT-930, and Ami MegaRAID (I forget the model, but
it's been happily working with 18GB drives just fine).

I also used the SCU tool from http://www.scsifaq.org, and the "show
capacity" command, and I also get back only 16777216 sectors (which is
2^24 = 8GB limit) for the drive.

I've also tried it on an older PowerPC Mac, a 7200, which has an
NCR53c96 SCSI controller I believe, and it also sees this drive as
having only 16777216 sectors.

So it has been shortstroked.


Any ideas or suggestions anyone? Am I doing something wrong?

Try: set device {capacity value} ; help set device
I've never used it so you are on your own there.

Or Try WDBench or codeupdt to set it back to full capacity.
WD's SCSI Workbench is easiest but requires Windows9x/ME.
codeupdt: select mode sense/select, header and block descriptor,
and change the number of blocks. DOS or Win9x/ME NT?

WD Bench and codeupdt are linked from www.nu2.nu/scsitool page
WD Bench has moved: http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=24&swid=25


Thanks in advance

PS. Anyone else with this drive: does yours sound like a hurricane or
airport, when turned on?
.

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