Dave Huang writes:
> 
> Weird, I've never heard of any drives that did that either... what kind
> of drive do you have?

A buddy of mine from work likes to tell me how he paid $1300 for 1GB IDE
when they first came out.  It had a jumper that split it into two 512
drives so you could use it all.  Sounds like this hack may have lived
longer than expected. :-)

-Andrew