[svlug] Aaaaaaaarrrrrggggggg!

[Edward Roper]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:48:23PM -0700, svlug at gory.org wrote:
> This has not been a good night.
> 
> I got an 80Gb IBM Deskstar today and slapped it in one of my linux boxes
> and it's only seeing 32Gb of the disk.  So I looked on the mobo
> manufacturer's web site and pulled down the latest BIOS update as my rev
> is six back.

Don't know if they're still doing it but for a while the deskstars had a
jumper setting to limit the big drives to only 32GB (or something like that)
due to limitations of old hardware. Check your jumper docs.