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reviving a Quantum Fireball drive
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Posted by: bsasso

I upgraded my Tivo successfuly, and expected to take advantange of the drive I pulled out of my Tivo. It is a Quantum Fireball LCT 15.
However, when I connected it to my WinXP Pro machine, it recognizes it as a Quantum Fireball, but does not get the right parameters. I have tried fdisk, also the Linux fdisk, the unlock program, and still my machine (Asus motherboard with latest Bios) will not recognize it correctly. :(
I set up the parameters manually:

63 sectors
16 tracks
16,383 Cylinders
16 heads

Now I do get the 30gb, but at boot up I get a warning that the drive will fail, I press F1 to continue and Windows will recognize it and it works fine. However the warning and having to press F1 everytime I boot up is worrying and a pain.

Any ideas what to do to restore the parameters to the drive?

Thanks

Ben

Posted by: Robert S

Isn't the most likely explanation that the drive is failing? That the warning is generated by the SMART self-monitoring system and nothing to do with drive locking?

Posted by: bsasso

You may be right. However, the drive was performing perfectly in the Tivo when I removed it. Also I ran spinrite and it did not find any problems with the drive.
I tried turning of SMART monitoring on the motherboard, but I still get the warning!

:(