Hey wd20ears!
Are you 100% positive, that after the next reboot / shutdown - powerup your drive will still show as 2TB?!
I have exactly the same stuff happening with my WDC WD20EARS drive on SLES 10.
I installed the driver, booted up the server and it shows 1TB… After a few reboots i decided to check the drive in an other server and it was recognized normally as 2TB. I’ve put the drive back to the original server and look at that - 2TB! Nice, until we had a little power shortage :-(, now it’s on 1TB again and needless to say all data on the drive is lost.
It’s an Intel system:
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Intel
Product Name: S5000PSL
Version: Not Specified
Serial Number: QSSL91000369
Asset Tag: QLR-DD1
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: Not Specified
Chassis Handle: 0x0000
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0
Bios is up-to-date.
I have tried HDAT2 but it fails to run… Any other Ideas on how to deal with that?
Would really appriciate any advice, i’ve exhausted all knolege i had :-(.
Regards,
D.
