David Klaus wrote:
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.
A recent experience I had involved a 40 gig Barracuda IDE drive/SCSI bridge pulled from an 8500 where it crashed and couldn't be remounted. My normal procedure is to mount it to a PC where I perform low level format, except that it would show no more than 5.9 GB no matter how I repeatedly reformatted it. Intuitively I reattached the SCSI bridge and installed it to a 7600. Drive Setup could see and initialize it as 38.4 GB.
Charlie
but the enigma is then did the PC do some fiddling or did the mac ?? L --
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