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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: ST31000340NS (1000G) Capacity equal 33MB issue.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:32:33 -0500
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To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
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Greg Freemyer wrote:
>..
> Very cool new functionality in [hdparm] 8.1
> Looking forward to testing it this week.
> 
> Thanks for your efforts.
> 
> I assume DCO is still able to hide sectors from us?
..

I'm not sure (haven't tried it here yet).

But the way I read the ATA8 specification,
it sounds like "hdparm -N" should show the true capacity,
regardless of DCO.  But what's not clear, is whether one
can then use -Nnnnnnnn to restore the capacity under DCO..

Gotta try it someday, I guess.