i just got a 30 gig quantum IDE drive (ebay, ugh!) for my beige g3, & it shows up on drive setup (os 7.6, 8.0, 8.5, 9.1, 10.0), but as a 9 mb disk! is the disk bad? is there a partition in there that's lying to my computer about the size? i've tried everything i can think of, & am going insane. please help!!!
Assuming you have checked the settings jumpers, the problem would seem to be that the drive is reporting wildly incorrect CHS (Cylinder, Head, Sector) values, causing Drive Setup to incorrectly determine the wrong drive size. I would still suggest heading to Maxtor <http://www.maxtor.com/en/> (they bought Quantum), confirm the drive model and the correct values, and check and see if there are any extra jumpers that may be on the circuit board with the HD electronics. If you were only able to format the drive to 8.4 GB, then the problem would be a configuration jumper that needed to be pulled, so there may be something else I don't know about. The bad news is you will probably need a PC and debugging/setup software to diagnose the problem and fix the incorrect information. The good part about a Mac is Apple has buried all of this for the average user, the bad part is that there are no diagnostic tools to get at the information when you really need it.
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