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New maxtor 120's reading 9mb?
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Posted by: buddhawood

I just got 2 of the maxtor 120gb at BB and I was going to do a dual upgrade but both these drives are showing at 9mb I have tried to unlock them but have no success. The funny thing is that they have never been installed and they are showing as locked? PLEASE HELP!!

Posted by: stevel

Sounds like a PC BIOS problem. Does the BIOS display the correct size? How old is your PC? The drives aren't locked - only Quantum drives had that feature. Something else is going wrong. Check the jumpers as well.

Posted by: Robert S

We had several people report this problem a couple of weeks ago here - search back through the posts.

Most of them had to return their drives.

Posted by: buddhawood

I have tried on several different computers including a PIII. Dont think it is a BIOS issue. When I run FDISK it only shows 10mb and wont allow me to create any partitions bigger than 1 10 mb. Maxtor doesnt have a LL format utility. Any other ideas?

Posted by: stevel

Maxtor does have a LL format utility - it's an option in MAXDIAG which you can download from the Maxtor site. Running the diagnostic (not the LL format) would be the next move.

The 9MB size is due to a failure in LBA mapping. I suppose it could be the drive. You'll need to run MAXIDAG in order to get an error code for the return.

Posted by: buddhawood

thanks, I got the LL utilty and ran it. No luck. I did notice that the drives show a "fat12" . never heard of that. Any more guesses? I will try to return the drives to BB, but not sure I want to hassle with the crowds today.

Posted by: cnshough

Take it back and get another one. Maxtors seem about 50/50 for being locked before even putting them into a tivo. Didn't I just type this in another thread? haha

Posted by: stevel

I don't think it's accurate to say that the drives are "locked". Rather, they're not responding properly to LBA mapping requests.

Posted by: buddhawood

Gave up and exchanged both units at BB. The new units worked fine. Wasted 2days messing with this. Should have thrown in the towel earlier. Thanks for the help attempts. I now have a 304hr TIVO!

Posted by: tyagi

I also experienced this problem with 2*Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM units (manufactured Oct 2002). I tried in vain for a week to get them working, but ended up returning them to exchange for some IBM drives. The IBM units worked just fine.

Posted by: Raj

quote:
Originally posted by stevel
Sounds like a PC BIOS problem. Does the BIOS display the correct size? How old is your PC?

FYI, I used an old (Pentium-133) PC to upgrade my SAT-T60 with a 120G Diamondmax 9 from BB. The BIOS didn't detect full capacity of the drive but the Linux kernel did, so I just set the drive type to "none" in the BIOS. As long as you're not booting from the drive the size detected by the BIOS should not matter.