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Unclipping a HP SCSI Drive?

#1 User is offline   Magsy Icon

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 06:40 PM

I have a HP branded Cheetah 10k.7 that is about 1gb short of its 'normal' size, this seems to be HP standard practice to allow dfferent replacement drives in an array.

However, I need to put the drive into a Dell which has Dell 10k.7's at full (normal) size. Of course, being 1gb short means I cannot use it to rebuild.

I have 'clipped' drives short before for performance but Seatools for DOS doesn't see the drive (no scsi support?) and Seatools Ent for Windows doesn't offer the option to adjust the LBAs.

Any ideas how I can restore the drives full size?

Thanks!

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Posted 13 November 2009 - 05:50 AM

Well maybe you could use that HP hard drive in a HP server and a Dell hard drive in a Dell server...?
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Posted 13 November 2009 - 06:18 AM

View PostMagsy, on Nov 13 2009, 12:40 AM, said:

HP branded Cheetah 10k.7 that is about 1gb short of its 'normal' size

Did you try applying a standard (non HP) firmware from Seagate ?
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