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To lower the number of blocks which lowers the capacity of the disk drive.

To lower the capacity of this drive from 2 GB (4,110,000 blocks) to 1 GB (2,055,000 blocks) enter the number 2055000 into all three fields (current, default and saved). Hit save parameters and reformat.

Note: This technique only works for drives under 9 GB. The number of bits in this field is too small for larger drives. Instead of increasing the size of this field Seagate uses a "high density" bit.

For Drives over 9GB:

Here is what a user has said:

"I figured it out. The high density bits for Seagate are in Byte 4 of the

operating Params page. They can be 0,1,2 or 3 (binary) setting or unsetting

breaks the 9 Gb and 18 Gb capacities.

Your SCSI Pro works fine, it was late and I was tired."

I have not yet had access to a large drive in order to write this documentation. However, It looks like the high density bit according to the Seagate manual is set to 8 for a 73 GB disk drive and the density bit is set to 2 for 18 GB disk drives.