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 1Sgd4j-0007xC-Cl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:37:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6ECE5E073E; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28F0E058E for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25461 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2012 14:35:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2012 14:35:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 16076 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jun 2012 14:34:10 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:34:10 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Message-ID: <20120618143410.GP4722@crowfix.com> References: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com> <4FDF3753.6070000@coolmail.se> 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: <4FDF3753.6070000@coolmail.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 621d9112-6a8f-461e-99b6-aa375cb6749c X-Archives-Hash: 38630ec3de4271be415c7b937cbe24ba On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:12:35PM +0200, pk wrote: > On 2012-06-18 08:16, 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. > > This is a bit confusing. Do you mean to say that these are 4TB internal > drives (3.5")? I can't find any manufacturer that manufactures this size > (yet)... Or is it 2x 2TB harddrives in a USB3 enclosure? There are > plenty of those it seems from Seagate, Western digital etc... Hitachi, I think. Fry's had two choies differing in size of cache (64M vs 32M) and some 3TB drives too. I could get the model numbers when I get back to that system (not near it for a few days). > >I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge its presence. > >USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards compatible, but not on my system. > > If possible try a BIOS upgrade... if not you can always try this (no > guarantees though): > http://www.addonics.com/products/ad2u3pci.php Interesting ... Cheap enough to be worth trying. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. 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