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November 29th, 2011, 4:39
Hi all,
i got a WD10EADS-11M2B1 drive which has a capacity issue. only 60Mb are recognised. i have attached an Atola report.
any suggestions how i can manage this drive work properly?
thank you in advance.
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November 29th, 2011, 8:04
According to the media access timing verification test, one or more heads are degraded.
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December 1st, 2011, 4:01
yes. but this shouldn't be a reason for the drive to be recognised as a 60Mb HDD. should be?
December 1st, 2011, 5:18
Failing / failed heads can do this.
December 1st, 2011, 19:43
This may be an ignorant question, by why does the report say the following?
Device information:
WDC WD10EADS-11M2B1
Serial number: WD-WCAV55663592
Firmware revision: 80.00A80
Capacity: 1.953.525.168 sectors or 1.000.204.886.016 bytes
512 bytes per sector
Device identification data looks fine.
Max Address according to device ID: 1.953.525.167
Native Max Address Ext: 1.953.525.167
Max Address from DCO: 1.953.525.167
Reported capacity looks logically correct.
ISTM that the drive is correctly reporting its full native capacity via the ATA Identify Device command, and no HPA appears to be in force. This would suggest that the 60MB capacity is a logical problem of some kind.
Where are you getting this capacity figure from? BIOS? OS?
If OS, have you examined the MBR?
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