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

[Charles Wyble]

Mic Chow wrote:
> Someone else check me, if I remember correctly the kernel 2.6.x does not
> read the hard drive specs from the BIOS. 

Both bios and Ubuntu setup report 80GB.
>  Have you tried to mount the
> one of the 1TB SATA drives in an external enclosure?

Nope. It's fresh from the factory.
>   One other option,
> check if Acer has updates to the BIOS firmware for that series of desktops.
>   

Will do.

> Mic
> North Hollywood, CA
> N34° 8'33.02"
> W118° 21'39.62"
>
> 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?
>>
>>     
>
>   


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