IBM-OEM Harddisk - DCAA-34330 - Cliptool-utility
IBM's new DCAA-34330 4.3GB disk drive is one of the highest capacity EIDE disk drives abailable in the industry.
While developing this drive, extensive quality and compatibility testing was performed in
IBM's Storage Integration Test laboratories.
IBM has determined that some Operating System levels and some system BIOS versions will not support the
full 4.3 GB capacity of this drive.
These situations arise due to range limits for the cylinder, head and sector or LBA registers within the
OS or BIOS software code.
These problems can be overcome by slightly reducing the capacity of the DCAA-34330 drive.
Reducing the capacity to 4.19 or 4.22 GB will allow the drive to be properly addressed.
You can download an IBM utility from
http://www.storage.ibm.com
to change the capacity of your drive to 4.19 or 4.22 GB if you have an OS or
BIOS capacity limitation problem.
If you upgrade your system or transfer the drive to a new system, you can restore the full capacity of your drive
using this same IBM utility (In this case, you have to reinstall the O/S and applications).
This file is a self-exploding EXE file which should be executed once downloaded to create the DCAACHG.EXE capacity
setting utility and (the below attached) README.TXT file which describes how to use the program.
It is also available as a ZIP file requiring PKUNZIP.EXE.
README.TXT
IBM 'TECHNICAL MARKETING SUPPORT' FOR STORAGE PRODUCTS
DCAACHG.EXE: 'SET MAXIMUM CAPACITY' utility for DCAA-34330 Drive
The DCAACHG.EXE utility provides the means to change the capacity
of the DCAA-34330 drive by modifying the number of 'logical'
cylinders on the drive.
The utility runs under DOS so a DOS bootable diskette will be required to
boot the system before the utility can be executed.
The following changes to drive total cylinders are possible:
F1: Help Screen
F3: Set to 4.22GB (8192 cylinders)
F4: Set to 4.19GB (8126 cylinders)
F5: Set to 4.33GB (8400 cylinders)
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