Re: ST31000340NS (1000G) Capacity equal 33MB issue.

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Mark Lord wrote:
> Richard Liu wrote:
..
>>   I downloaded hdparm-8.1
>> and here is output information.
>>
>> # ./hdparm -N /dev/sdc
>>
>> /dev/sdc:
>>  max sectors   = 65134/1953525168, HPA is enabled
> ..
> 
> Yes, pretty much as expected there.
> 
> You can safely now try this:
> 
>    ./hdparm -N1953525168 /dev/sdc
> 
> If that works, it will have temporarily restored access to the entire 
> drive.
> Then you can try to make it permanent by doing this:
> 
>   ./hdparm -Np1953525168 /dev/sdc
> 
> If *that* also works, then reboot and things should be fine,
> unless your machine BIOS changes it back again on boot.. :/
> 
> If either of those *fails*, then it is because your BIOS (or possibly 
> the system startup scripts) have "frozen" the configuration
> to prevent changes.  Dunno why they would do that, but it's possible.
> 
> In which case, you could move the drive to another machine temporarily,
> and then issue that same command there.
..

Or just hot unplug/replug the drive and try it again.
That should also work, assuming the driver for your controller supports hotplug.

Cheers