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 1Sgltd-0001Jg-P0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:02:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06D4DE07C0; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:01:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E336E078D for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7902 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2012 00:01:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 19 Jun 2012 00:01:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 17704 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jun 2012 00:00:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:00:14 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Message-ID: <20120619000014.GW4722@crowfix.com> References: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com> <20120618142849.GO4722@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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 695aac14-44dc-4884-b89b-806664caa28b X-Archives-Hash: 3327a3b6c2a53ee7749b29444505be4b On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:46:15PM -0700, walt wrote: > On 06/18/2012 07:28 AM, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:59:13AM -0700, walt wrote: > >> On 06/17/2012 11:16 PM, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > >>> I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even > >>> acknowledge its presence. > >> > >> By 'system' do you mean the BIOS, or the kernel driver? > > > > I plugged them into the USB after boot, so it's the kernel. I didn't > > try booting with them. > > > > I have an outboard usb3 docking station that needs the xhci driver. > Do you have that driver enabled? Maybe one of the many rescue/install > CD's will recognize the drive/enclosure combination? Compiled as a module, and not loaded. Hadn't thought of that. I'll try it when I get back there. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. 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