And of course, no one ever makes a mistake. If a 40GB device got mistakenly imaged at the factory with an image designed for a 12GB drive, it would act like a 12GB drive until someone paid attention to the actual capacity (like when they were installing a new OS). Trust the published spec sheet over the specs pulled from the flash ROM on the actual drive? Good luck with that.dasein wrote:Only if someone upgraded the HDD after-the-fact. A quick glance at the spec sheet for the Thinkpad 570E shows that the factory-original HDD is indeed 12GB.cpoakes wrote:If these report 40GB, then with a high degree of certainty you have a 40GB device being used as a 10GB device
If smartctl reports 40GB, then 1) it is a 40GB drive, 2) the 12GB drive was incorrectly mated with a 40GB controller, or 3) the flash ROM on the controller board has been mistakenly or maliciously flashed with the wrong version. In any case, it needs a confirmation. As I said, use the smartctl test or even a simple dd write and read to the device beyond the 12GB boundary and check for errors.