Help with Svend Olaf's SETSIZE.EXE and Compaq crippled drive

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I'm trying to get Svend Olaf's Setsize.exe to regain the native capacity
of a Seagate drive without success. Can someone give me any idea what
I'm doing wrong?

The drive is a Seagate ST320011A. According to Seagate's site, this is
a 20Gb drive. It's installed in a Compaq machine and is seen as a 10Gb.

DFT and Svend's IDENTIFY.EXE say the max LBA is 19541088. According to
Seagate's specs, the max LBA for the 20Gb unit is 39102335.

So I boot off a DOS 6.22 disk and try:

setsize pm native expert nonvolatile
setsize pm native 39102335 nonvolatile

both of which result in the following output:

"Major/minor: 003E 0000
New size too small.
Invalid new size.
Native sectors not correct.
NB"

Any hints, please? Have also tried the SET MAX ADDRESS feature of
Hitachi's DFT which reports that it cannot operate on this drive
(presumably because it's not an IBM/Hitachi unit.)

Thanks.
 
I'm trying to get Svend Olaf's Setsize.exe to regain the native capacity
of a Seagate drive without success. Can someone give me any idea what
I'm doing wrong?

The drive is a Seagate ST320011A. According to Seagate's site, this is
a 20Gb drive. It's installed in a Compaq machine and is seen as a 10Gb.
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We had a thread previously this year with some Seagate disk not
matching specifications. That disk came from a Sun system.

As far as I can tell this problem however is another, so I suggest you
post the output from Identify version 1.1. I just put a link to it at
my page. The difference from version 1.0 is that it will display
information about native sectors if available.
 
I'm trying to get Svend Olaf's Setsize.exe to regain the native capacity
of a Seagate drive without success. Can someone give me any idea what
I'm doing wrong?
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PS. You also can try this command:

setsize pm removeconfig expert
 
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen said:
PS. You also can try this command:

setsize pm removeconfig expert
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That appeared to work. Setsize reported "OK."
The BIOS now reports the drive is a 20Gb.

Partitioned the disk using fdisk from a Win98 boot floppy and now doing
a DOS format with /s/u/c to check.

Many thanks. :)
 
Mike Tomlinson said:
I'm trying to get Svend Olaf's Setsize.exe to regain the native capacity
of a Seagate drive without success. Can someone give me any idea what
I'm doing wrong?

The drive is a Seagate ST320011A. According to Seagate's site, this is
a 20Gb drive. It's installed in a Compaq machine and is seen as a 10Gb.

DFT and Svend's IDENTIFY.EXE say the max LBA is 19541088. According to
Seagate's specs, the max LBA for the 20Gb unit is 39102335.

So I boot off a DOS 6.22 disk and try:

setsize pm native expert nonvolatile
setsize pm native 39102335 nonvolatile

both of which result in the following output:

"Major/minor: 003E 0000
New size too small.
Invalid new size.
Native sectors not correct.
NB"
Click to expand...

Sounds like Svend still hasn't corrected that totally useless error message.
Any hints, please? Have also tried the SET MAX ADDRESS feature of
Hitachi's DFT which reports that it cannot operate on this drive
Click to expand...
(presumably because it's not an IBM/Hitachi unit.)
Click to expand...

Nope, that works independent of make.
It only works on the current configuration.
It can't be used to remove a configuration.
 
Sounds like Svend still hasn't corrected that totally useless error message.
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I do not think the lines are exact. The program may interpret the
number of native sectors as zero when not reported. Anyway, I solved
the problem by removing the program.
 
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