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In article <597n14$4qk@fountain.mindlink.net>,
Jack Bowling <jcbowling@mindlink.bc.ca> wrote:
>In message <5977ak$en7@samba.rahul.net> - Mustafa Soysal MS57
><mistik@rahul.net>17 Dec 1996 22:37:08 GMT writes:
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>>
>>Subject says it all.  A 4GB disk turned into a 1GB disk.
>>
>>IBM doesn't know how to help.
>>
>>Drive manufacturer checked with a utility for the internal geometry
>>information, that shows 4GB.  There isn't a problem as we have first
>>suspected.
>>
>>On top of all this, it could destroy the replacement drive exactly the
>>same way.
>
>I'm not trying to be facetious here... but the best way to determine if it
>is possibly your host adapter is to get somone who has the same adapter and
>a known working drive to lend you the drive, install it, and see how it
>comes up in your machine.
>
> - Jack

Thank you Jack.  I solved the problem the following way.

Adaptec pointed me out towards another low-level formatter they have,
scsifrmt.exe archive in their bbs/hardware location at their ftp site.

I booted into PCDOS and ran the utility.  It returned the drive to 4GB.

I can still lose the data with such incident, but the disk will come
back at least, and I won't have to swap ship a replacement each time
this happens (daily to every few days).

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