From: pk <peterk2@coolmail.se>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:12:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDF3753.6070000@coolmail.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com>
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...
>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
> I put one of the drives into an old USB 2.0 enclosure, and while it was found and useable,
>it saw the size as 1.6TB.
For a 2TB a usable size of 1.6TB sounds about right...
> I can't get a USB 3.0 PCI card; there are PCI-e cards, but my system is PCI and PCI-X.
See above...
Maybe more questions than answers but hopefully they will give you a
clue or two for the correct answer(s)...
Best regards
Peter K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-18 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-18 6:16 [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations felix
2012-06-18 6:35 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-06-18 13:09 ` felix
2012-06-18 8:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-18 13:11 ` felix
2012-06-18 13:24 ` felix
2012-06-18 20:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-18 13:59 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-06-18 14:28 ` felix
2012-06-18 23:46 ` walt
2012-06-19 0:00 ` felix
2012-06-18 14:12 ` pk [this message]
2012-06-18 14:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2012-06-18 14:39 ` felix
2012-06-19 14:42 ` Stroller
2012-06-19 14:49 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-19 16:05 ` felix
2012-06-19 16:13 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-18 14:48 ` pk
2012-06-18 14:56 ` felix
2012-06-18 14:57 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-18 15:45 ` pk
2012-06-18 23:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-06-19 1:30 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-06-19 10:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-19 10:54 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-06-19 14:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-20 7:25 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-06-19 2:54 ` Dale
2012-06-19 10:57 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-06-18 14:34 ` felix
2012-06-18 15:45 ` pk
2012-06-18 15:54 ` felix
2012-06-19 15:43 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-19 16:07 ` felix
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