[SGVLUG] Interesting Problem (1tb drive showing up as 80GB)

[Charles Wyble]

Hello all,

So the subject pretty much says it all. :)

I recently purchased 2 Seagate SATA 1 TB drives and upon installing them 
in my system (Acer Aspire desktop - AMD64 4 gigs of ram ~2 years old) 
they show up (both in the bios and to Ubuntu (not that the OS would see 
them as different sizes at least not on modern drives if I understand 
correctly)) as 80GB. I replaced 2 500GB drives in the system which 
worked fine without needing any special jumper settings etc.

Google doesn't produce any useful results with various search terms. To 
many product sites...... *mumbles about the semantic web promise and 
kicks brain dead search engine *

Any ideas? Do I need to upgrade my bios to support 1TB drives?

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