Hi,
        Stupid question.  Is LBA turned on?  The only time I have seen a EIDE show
528 megs was when this was turned off.  It could also explain the greater
than 1024 cylinders problem.

HTH,
Donald Gaither

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mark Rode
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 1:10 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Maxtor Mystery


I have a six month old Maxtor ULTRA EIDE drive installed on the primary of
a FIC 503 + ....a Mitsumi CD Burner is installed on the secondary as a
master with a Teac CD reader installed as a slave.

At this point I ran professional diagnostics......Spinrite reports 528
megs.....Quick Tech Pro...reports a hard drive with 528 megs.
Maxtor tells me if their diagnostics doesn't see a problem then it is not
the drive.
At Boot the BIOS correctly shows the drive as CHS, UDMA 2, 5763MB.
I can perform tasks with Partition Magic 4.0 without any kind of error
message. NDD reports no errors. Drive image 2.0 reports an error message
that there is more then 1024 when attempting to restore a partition but
Drive Image 3.0 does not.

I am out of ideas....does anybody know what is going on ?

thanks

m

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