Problem solved!

Thanks to everyone who responded about this annoyance.

The answer lay in limiting the drive capacity with its jumpers - as soon as
I did that, the 40G drive was instantly recognised.

Sure, it's only as as a 33G, but I think I'll leave it that way - the
customer's original drive is only 2G so 33G is going to be a huge upgrade
for him.

And I understand that if I were to apply a BIOS overlay, to gain the final
7G of capacity, the overlay has to remain in place until the drive is
reformatted.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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