[SGVLUG] Interesting Problem (1tb drive showing up as 80GB)

[Mic Chow]

Someone else check me, if I remember correctly the kernel 2.6.x does not
read the hard drive specs from the BIOS.  Have you tried to mount the
one of the 1TB SATA drives in an external enclosure?  One other option,
check if Acer has updates to the BIOS firmware for that series of desktops.

Mic
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Charles Wyble wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> So the subject pretty much says it all. :)
> 
> I recently purchased 2 Seagate SATA 1 TB drives and upon installing them
> in my system (Acer Aspire desktop - AMD64 4 gigs of ram ~2 years old)
> they show up (both in the bios and to Ubuntu (not that the OS would see
> them as different sizes at least not on modern drives if I understand
> correctly)) as 80GB. I replaced 2 500GB drives in the system which
> worked fine without needing any special jumper settings etc.
> 
> Google doesn't produce any useful results with various search terms. To
> many product sites...... *mumbles about the semantic web promise and
> kicks brain dead search engine *
> 
> Any ideas? Do I need to upgrade my bios to support 1TB drives?
>