On 10/26/07, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since you didn't specify how you determined that it
has only 131G,
perhaps you should check with fdisk to see what the
actual capacity
is?
The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for
that drive: Maximum Capacity
Anyway, this is where things get even stranger. I've
quadruple-checked and I still don't believe it. The
Maxtor drive now PASSES smartctl -H and the new one
FAILS. The Maxtor still gets the dma_intr errors in
dmesg and the Samsung is said to have it's DMA
disabled which contradicts the BIOS,
Since you didn't specify how you determined that it
has only 131G,
perhaps you should check with fdisk to see what the
actual capacity
is?
The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for
that drive: Maximum Capacity [131071MB], fdisk sees
the whole 160G.
On my way to check the
The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for
that drive: Maximum Capacity [131071MB], fdisk sees
the whole 160G.
In that case I'd look for a BIOS update. (FWIW 128 x 1024 = 131072).
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