So, if anyone cares, I finally got it to work!!!! I had to format one drive at a time, with nothing else connected, going through the entire sequence of enabling LBA support, etc. It took forever, but it worked. Once they were all formatted, I was able to build the raid 5 array. THANK YOU everyone, and most especially blue68f100, for getting me to try it all over again, one at a time...
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Originally Posted by boyelectric
I have a 4000, Hardware 2.01, Bios 2.0.282, Software updated to 4.0.855, then .860.
The old drives are fine, raid is fine. Done the debug/ide command and the new drives (Hitachi 250GB) all come out at 137GB. They work fine like this, and I can make a raid fine, but just not the LBA support.
Does anyone have tricks for those of us who are left out in the cold?
I also tried adding the drives in one at a time or all at once, and still not seeing the full capacity.
I also have done the reinit, several times, I've even tried a cold restart to try to jog its little brain... no avail.
(4) Hitachi DeskStar 7K250 - 250 GB - ATA-100, 7200 rpm, 8MB buffer
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