The usual problem about the time that drive came out was too many old BIOS chips couldn't handle anything over 32GB. So all the drives came with software and jumpers that told it to emulate a drive with the maximum number of sectors for 32GB, but made them very large sectors to get the full drive storage. If you have an old computer you still might have the bad BIOS. Otherwise, check for jumpers. Good luck. Doug. tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:30:36 -0600 (CST) > From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Maxtor_6L120P0 > Interesting -- there's a 32GB switch? So, 32 GiB is... > > $ echo "2^35" | octave -qfH > ans = 3.4360e+10 > > 34.36 GB, which is a little more than what you see, probably because of > some kind of overhead. That's probably it -- jumpers on wrong pins. > > Mike