Fujitsu MAP3367NP drives showing half capacity

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I have really tried to search forums for my exact problem, but I just cannot seem find a direction to go. I have several linux and Windows partitioned Fujitsu MAP3367NP SCSI hard drives, and I need to restore it back to the factor settings (Cylinders/Sectors/Head) sizes etc. From what I have found out, I presume the drive capacity is 36.7 GB OEM If I use CFDISK in Linux, as well as PARTED and GPARTED I only see a 17.1G partition (ID83 Linux Native) and (ID82 Linux Swap) of 47.1M. I am assuming there is a partition that I just cannot see that is taking up the rest of the space to equal around 36GB. Could this be caused from a software partition manager? or part of a RAID stripe? Can anyone point me in the right sirection as to recover the full capacity of the drive? Data is not an issue, so if there is a command that can restore back to factory, or delete all partitions/flags etc and set them back to the OEM state? I have attached a couple screen shots. One of the screenshots shows Gparted with the same model drive, but a different physical drive, that has the same problem, but it is partitioned into NTFS partitions. The information on the sectors/cylinders/head is the same as the drive descriped above
Thank you very much for your help! This is a time sensitive project.

Here is the drive:
Drive

Here is the output from the LSI SCSI controller of the Linux drive
LSI Output

Here is the CFDISK output of the linux drive
CFDISK

and the Gparted output of the same type/brand drive, different physical drive with NTFS partitions
Gparted
 
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drtweak
No their wouldnt be because of how the co troller is picking it up. And if it is a non raid scsi adapter it wont show raid status at all. Hook it up to a scsi raid controller. It should say the raid status then ad you can go in and delete it if their is one
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IF it was in a RAID 1 before it could have been with a 17GB disk and that could be the reason why you can't see it.

Now you said their is no data on here that need to be kept?

If so I would do one of two things.

1) since it is LSI you can download the LSI MegaRaid Storage Manager. There is a Linux version. Install that and see what it says about the drive.

2) If the SCSI Card you have has a Management internface on start up (something like Press CTRL+I or C) go in there and see if their are any settings.

And this is the only SCSI drive you have connected correct?
 
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Thank you for the answer, yes it is the only SCSI drive connected, and yes, data does not need to be kept. Basically it is a shop that has tons of older equipment they purchased. My goal is to bring the drives back to factory capacity, so they can resell them. The Onboard LSI controller utility was VERY basic. I am going to try a different machine and an Adaptec SCSI controller. If it was part of a RAID, which I am guessing it was, wouldn't there be a flag or some indicator on it? I tried several things with fdisk/cfdisk/parted etc trying to get rid of anything I could to see if I could recover the space. If there was a way to completely scrub ALL information on it, MBR, basically everything it knows, I am willing to try it.
 
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No their wouldnt be because of how the co troller is picking it up. And if it is a non raid scsi adapter it wont show raid status at all. Hook it up to a scsi raid controller. It should say the raid status then ad you can go in and delete it if their is one
 
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