Unable to manually set disk size in SeaTools

[remember_987]

Hi all,

I'm attempting to short stroke one of my old segate hard drives for use as an OS drive and all was going well until I attempted to manually set the # of LBAs at which point sea tools says "erroronsetmaxadressEXT (#LBAs here) = 51:10 Make sure the drive has been power cycled" I have power cycled the drive several times and am continually receiving this error. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

edit: it's probably worth noting my drive passes the short diagnostic test in seatools

 

[r_manic]

It's most likely your drive is too old for it to be fully compatible with Seatools? I'm not entirely familiar with the management software unfortunately.

 

[remember_987]

I don't think that would be the case because the hard drive is only 1-2 years old. I am attempting to contact seagate support but they are incredible slow to reply to me. Thanks for the reply anyway.

 

[Paperdoc]

Any chance the max LBA's already are set to something even smaller than you want? I'm thinking maybe it would prefer that you reset the drive to its native max setting first, then in a second operation set it to your new target.

 

[rkaye]

get it figured out yet? keep us updated...

 

[remember_987]

I still havent figured it out unfortunately. I tried setting the disk to it's maximum size but that also returned the same error so we can rule out the number of LBA's being smaller than I am trying to set them.