Re: Hard drive problem
- From: "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:25:11 +0100
"Arno Wagner" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3sueh4FpgpkdU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Previously Void <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, I started having a hrd drive problem yesterday - disk drive detection in
> > BIOS doesn't detect it as a 60GB drive (which it is) anymore, but instead as
> > a 32GB drive. And to make things stranger, it seems that the first 32GB of
> > the drive are working correctly (I have a 20GB win98 partition first). I
> > wonder if anyone had a similar problem and was the melfunction in
> > a) Hard drive (electronics)
> > b) Hard drive (mechanics)
> > c) Controller on the motherboard
> > d) Something else
>
> > I tried entering drive characteristics manually in BIOS but got pretty
> > confused by it - autodetection says that it has about 65000 cylinders. Using
> > that setting it calculates the disk drive size of the mentioned 32GB. On the
> > drive itself it is written that it has around 16000 cylinders. But if I
> > enter that value, the BIOS calculates that the drive has only 8GB. The rest
> > of the settings like the number of heads, number of sectors per track etc
> > seem fine. What am I doing wrong?
> > BTW the hard drive is IBM deskstar IC35L060AVER07 and the motherboard is
> > Gigabyte 7VRXP.
>
> > Thank you in advance for the replies.
>
> This drive has a jumper to limit is to 32GB, I believe.
No? You think so?
> Maybe something has shortened that jumper (Insects?).
Insect poop, definetely.
> Unlikely as it is, that is easiest to check and rectify.
Yeah, use toilet paper, obviously.
And catch that bug so it doesn't poop on it again.
>
> On the other hand the product manual says that even then the number
> of cylinders will stay 16383,
You needed the product manual for that basic knowledge? Good for you.
> so what you are seeing is not a standard capacity clipping by the drive.
No kidding. As if there would be such a thing.
> That means something is seriously wrong.
Yeah. Could it be you, babblemouth.
>
> Hmmm.
Hmmm.
> May still be a cabeling or signalling problem, if a bizzare one.
Yup very bizzare. Very very very.
> You should remove and re-seat all the connectors for this drive, just
> in case.
Really no idea, haven't you, babblemouth.
>
> In the same venue are a failing PSU and other electrical problems,
> including an issue with the CMOS-RAM (unlikely) or the FLAS-BIOS
> (unlikely).
Yeah, and what not.
>
> As a next step, I would advise you
Oh, there he goes again, Arnie the Advisor.
> tor try the drive in a different computer in order to isolate the
> problem better.
It's clipped. Get it into your skull.
> This may turn out to be difficult to diagnose.
> But if the drive works on another computer, you can at least do a backup.
>
> Arno
>
> Jumper settings:
> http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/d60gxp/d60gxpjum.htm
> Other Docu:
> http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/products/Deskstar_60GXP
.
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