From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SgbyI-00049w-1D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:26:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 090E2E05F1; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A31E0517 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:24:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24229 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2012 13:25:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2012 13:25:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 5572 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jun 2012 13:24:16 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:24:16 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Message-ID: <20120618132416.GN4722@crowfix.com> References: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com> <20120618090654.4d23e9a5@digimed.co.uk> <20120618131130.GL4722@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120618131130.GL4722@crowfix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: f6f763f8-ba57-45f6-beec-353cbb739344 X-Archives-Hash: 23e2a2f7e74449711007387973e40711 On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:11:31AM -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:06:54AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:16:24 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > > > > > I plugged two 4TB SATA drives in and the BIOS hangs trying to display > > > the disk size. Whether it is the size itself, or from using 4K blocks, > > > I do not know. > > > > Have you updated the BIOS to the latest available version? > > No, didn't even think about that. I've never upgraded BIOS an any of > my systems. It's a Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro. Guess I'll google for that. Found a Tyan page for my motherboard. Didn't see any obvious fixes for SATA size. I also don't remember my BIOS version, I'll have to check that. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o