Re: Cylinder limits jumper for drives over 32GB

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 10:58:11 EST


On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Andre:
> > I just one of these Draco Drives from Maxtor for evaluation.

Never got those tools, they are DOS/WIN limited........this was for Linux.
I have never run into the issue.....I do not have any MS product (yeah)..

> It seems that there are four possible states:
> jumper present or not, JUMPON.EXE used or not.
>
> David Elliott reports (after running JUMPON.EXE)
> identify data, where the difference between with and without jumper
> is the lba_capacity (66055248 vs 80041248),
> and the last short (f9a5 vs e9a5).
>
> If you did not run JUMPON.EXE, what differences do you see?
> (That is, what do you get from cat /proc/ide/hdX/identify
> without and with jumper?)
>
> Andries
>
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Andre Hedrick
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