Hi, I recently bought a 200GB HDD and swapped it for the 80GB HDD that was in my Maxtor external firewire enclosure. However, FDISK only sees this as a 137GB HDD. I have another firewire enclosure (IO Data) with the same 200GB HDD and it works fine, so I don't think the problem is with my kernel, motherboard or firewire controller. I've done quite a bit of Googling and discovered that this may be a problem with the HDD controller in the enclosure itself. I bought it four years ago with the 80GB Maxtor drive preinstalled. Maxtor offers some patches for Windows to see larger drives, is there anything I can do on Linux to make it work, or is it just a limitation of the controller hardware? Is there a way to upgrade the firmware in the enclosure? hdparm doesn't want to return much, but here it is (sdb works fine, sda doesn't): # hdparm /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 24792/255/63, sectors = 203928109056, start = 0 # hdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16709/255/63, sectors = 137438952960, start = 0 -m PS: Using FC3, 2.6.9-1.667 on an IBM Thinkpad R32
