So, back to those 160gb drives Farva couldn’t install the other day…

I boot the machine, and guess what.. All 4 of the drives are formatted to 132gb, not 160gb. Huh? The manual explicitly states 160gb formatted capacity, so something is obviously wrong.

I talk to Farva, who mentions that “I noticed that, but left it” and proceeded to format all the drives anyways, leaving us short 92gb.

A 5 minute web search finds a technote indicating that we need Win2000 SP3 to get full capacity. So… we’re gonna have to reformat them all over again.

Summary:

  • Farva notices a problem
  • Farva ignores the problem
  • Farva has to redo all of his work because he ignored the problem