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Partitioned drives for T800

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:29 am
by NECSJT
I recently aquired 2TB drives for a T800 and it turns ou that some of them have been partitoned to 1TP and 750GB is there a way to repartition them back to 2TB?

Re: Partitioned drives for T800

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:58 pm
by Richard Siemers
I wonder if these were t2TB drives that were used to swap out a failed 1TB or 750Gb drive, so it was rigged to look/act like the proper drive size...

How are you able to see the partitions now?

I wonder if the drive hardware has a jumper on it that tells it physically emulate a previously discontinued drive size for warranty replacement purposes and compatability...

Re: Partitioned drives for T800

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:20 am
by corge
It's a bit setting in the firmware from HP. You will need to contact HP.

We have some T-series with 1TB drives in them. During the Tsunami deal a few years ago, HP didn't have the 1TB on hand, so they upgraded a patch on our inservs and sent us 2TB hard drives that appear as 1TB hard drives. Nothing we can do to those since they have the HP firmware on them.