Quote Originally Posted by Platypus
It is possible it could be an exchange drive that has been "refurbished" by having faulty platters excluded with a firmware patch. I have a Fujitsu MPC3043 4.3GB drive this appears to have been done to - by all diagnosis it resolutely appears as 2.1G (there is no 2.1GB model in the series). If you force the correct parameters in the BIOS and try to LLF the drive etc, there is 100% failure reported beyond 2.1G.
Wow, is that something.
So is this what Compaq and others are doing now?
Compaq didn't lock the capacity.
What model Comcrap and what OS?
I stand corrected.
Who would have thunk such a thing.
Compaq never fails to surprise or disappoint.