[X4U] LaCie Hard Drive problem

[eleventhvolume]

Hello Rick and Neil,

> Did you erase it while having the volume (at the indented level in Disk
> Utility) selected or the drive (at the unindented level in Disk Utility)? The
> volume level will have the current name of the partition as its label, while
> the drive level will have the description of the drive as its label. You
> should erase it at the drive level, not the volume level.
I did, but unfortunately without success.
 
> By the way, what does the drive description say as to its size?
It continues to state that it has a total capacity of 27.9gb (30,005,821,440
bytes)

> Hmmm . . . something's up then. I can' imagine why a 40 GB drive
> would only show up as 27. Try launching Terminal and doing a sudo
> pdisk . . then hit ? to see the commands. L will show you the
> partition maps and maybe you'll have some unused space. Just hit q
> when done to exit without actually doing anything.
I'm a Terminal novice, but to my untrained eye it looks to me like my Pocket
Drive is steadfastly refusing to return my other 12 or so gb - damn the
thing!

Thanks to you both for your help.

All the best, Colin.

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk0'
 #:                type name        length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple           63 @ 1
 2:          Apple_Free             262144 @ 64        (128.0M)
 3:           Apple_HFS Untitled 156039270 @ 262208    ( 74.4G)
 4:          Apple_Free                 10 @ 156301478

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 (74.5G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk1'
 #:                type name                   length   base     ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                      63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                  56 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                  56 @ 120
 4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                  56 @ 176
 5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                  56 @ 232
 6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh                 512 @ 288
 7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh                 512 @ 800
 8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition           512 @ 1312
 9:          Apple_Free                        262144 @ 1824     (128.0M)
10:           Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 58341136 @ 263968   ( 27.8G)
11:          Apple_Free                            16 @ 58605104

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120 (27.9G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1:  23 @ 64, type=0x1
2:  36 @ 120, type=0xffff
3:  21 @ 176, type=0x701
4:  34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff