I am reviving this topic because a friend of mine now seems to have the same problem. The problem is not identical though: he uses a WD 20EARS drive which only shows 1 TB anymore, instead of the 2TB it should show.

I have already used the Marks HDPARM utility, but it does not seem to work (using a UBUNTU 10.4 Live CD - hdparm version 9.15)

This is what it says:


And then when I do :


What is wrong here? Could this be because this HD is one of those Advanced Format disks?

I suspect you merely need a recent copy of hdparm, rather than the very very ancient one that distro seems to be shipping.

You can get it from sourceforge, and build/run it, even while running in the livecd environment.

Cheers

Thanks Mark, I figured as much. Could you please explain to me how I do that, building and running that tarball using that live CD? I have zero experience when it comes to these things. (I fact, I was quite proud of myself I managed to get the hdparm utility running the first time ;))

Thanks!

Here's a pre-compiled binary (attached) that will work from any 32-bit x86 Linux environment.

So just boot from the LiveCD,
use the web browser to surf to this empegbbs thread,
and download the attachment from there.

Open up a terminal window,
and do gunzip hdparm.gz
from there to extract the executable.

Let us know how you make out with it.

Cheers

Thanks Mark, I'll give it a shot!

Success!! Everything worked very smoothly! Thanks again Mark!