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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

The disk which spinrite implies is 16GB (3GB total partitions, 18% used) 
is detected by syschk under ide1 as 2GB, under ide1 info as 1.5GB, and 
under logical as 1.5GB.  I have on it 1.5GB of DOS partitions.

Maxtor 81620a3 - found online as 1.6GB

The moral is that old diagnostic programs cannot handle new hardware.
I won't believe spinrite.

But we still have two drives from which we removed DDO's that DOS can only 
partition/format as 503MB (fdisk or PQMagic) but linux detects as 1.2GB or 
1.9GB and can partition as such.  Once partitioned with linux fdisk, don't 
try to change things with a DOS partitioning program.

DDOs can be removed by low-level formatting.  Something that came with the 
computer BIOS worked on the EZ-DRIVE drive, but we needed the actual 
Maxtor powermax.exe on their boot disk to low-level format the Maxtor with 
Ontrack's DDO.  dd if=/dev/zero messed things up worse, but did let us 
boot from floppy disk without hitting space bar first.

Sindi