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 1Sgd8u-0000A9-NQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:41:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6F8BE0605; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7EAE059B for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25543 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2012 14:40:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2012 14:40:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 17156 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jun 2012 14:39:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:39:20 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Message-ID: <20120618143920.GQ4722@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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 0e1314a8-6aff-4320-84f1-9977d944a19a X-Archives-Hash: 81ca1fcde4061727ad34bae9413cfac1 On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:24:58AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM, 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... > > http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/ > > "Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache > 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive" > > It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in > a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would > operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any > analogous steps for the 4TB drives? I don't remember seeing any jumpers at all. I'll take another look when I get back there. > (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my > aggregate volumes.) I remember buying a 330MB ATA drive for $300 and being amazed it was less than $1/MB. These were $299 at Fry's, 10 cents per GB. Don't know what I'll do with 8TB but I am sure it will fill up sooner rather than later. If nothing else, I'll snapshot the system files every night and take a year to fill it up. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. 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