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Samsung 120GB reports as 34GB?
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Posted by: vogtuj

Howdy-

Picked up two of the recommended 5400RPM, 120GB Samsung HDs, ready to do the upgrade, but for whatever reason, the second Samsung is only reporting as 34GB.

Got to step ten before I realized this, for obvious reasons.

Has this happened to anyone before? Is there an answer besides "RMA"? I've tried manually setting the drive-settings in my CMOS, as well as auto-detecting, with no luck.

The lines from the bootup are:

hda: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/ 2048KiB Cache, CHS=14596/255/63 UDMA(33)
hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/ 2048KiB Cache, CHS=14596/255/63 UDMA(33)

So, if there's a quick fix, I'd love to hear it, otherwise I guess I'll just do one drive now, and then upgrade the other when it arrives from Samsung/esystor.

Thanks!

-Ulreh Vogt

Posted by: flyersfan

It sounds like a jumper issue. The Samsungs are rather notorious for the complicated jumper configuration.

If you look directly at the back of the drive so the power cable is on the LEFT side, the jumpers are labeled as:

G E C A
H F D B

The proper orientation for a slave drive that's not limited to 32gb is BD + FH. The orienation for a master drive that's not limited is AB + FH (which I believe is the setting out of the box).

I hope that helps.

Posted by: vogtuj

quote:
Originally posted by flyersfan
It sounds like a jumper issue. The Samsungs are rather notorious for the complicated jumper configuration.

If you look directly at the back of the drive so the power cable is on the LEFT side, the jumpers are labeled as:

G E C A
H F D B

The proper orientation for a slave drive that's not limited to 32gb is BD + FH. The orienation for a master drive that's not limited is AB + FH (which I believe is the setting out of the box).

I hope that helps.

You are the winner. Turns out I had changed the jumper on the HD I installed Win98 on to copy the backup to. Always mark your drives, they say!

Thanks!

-Ulreh Vogt