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 1SgzmM-0004Wi-4V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:51:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B893E078D; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A477E06E8 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so5821030bkc.40 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:49:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KL/l678U2Osb/cwsWNdm2t8nH9jTOuhRobu9nbdPQ48=; b=YWL3seSRTUccRWhSeVdeEN+pBvd1DfvAUi66r886yu5wpGhBbzFN1Hcj3oBvgMkVoS mMPvshD6RWsgC//+J+A6e/CfiR1d63Dbz7ubEvx/KSgugtuXfMe819QLdR7wF+YSKlj8 mB+DcoGFjFbgga5oHifXF+Y+zFtC4KXtZFgIrUDoB4Zvmh+3H28aTCsxTzLsdV0u4zO8 2r7kFuy+awhFrVSmh7jLCfINgB9Cg2fvIc6JyOhaAB5HD2OLgzuoW6pIaqYbKVr+W5vH z9qmNFXwjISXEBUt68wd1B62wyH7lw5jSurDDDtQ4GPCMSk9egqzeyBnQhKUBEHCirib xKBQ== 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 Received: by 10.205.133.19 with SMTP id hw19mr8666304bkc.0.1340117388317; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.83.139 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:49:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E0086D1-43B0-41DB-9203-150DCABE138F@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com> <4FDF3753.6070000@coolmail.se> <20120618143920.GQ4722@crowfix.com> <4E0086D1-43B0-41DB-9203-150DCABE138F@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:49:48 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: bfd28d6a-16b8-4779-a04d-019302734e99 X-Archives-Hash: b5169d5a4667fc6361d5cd026065f10a On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, felix@crowfix.com wrote: >>> ... >>> 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. =C2=A0I'll take another look= when I get back there. > > With some drives this is done in software / firmware. > > I think you mentioned these drives are Hitachi - previous models of their= drives were set using their "Hard-drive Feature Tool" bootable CD (e.g. ft= ool_215.iso). This now appears to be obsolete, but they may offer a newer a= lternative. > > From experience, if the motherboard / SATA controller is old enough you w= ill *definitely* have to set the drives to 1.5Gb/s. A thought...if the system is old enough that it only has PCI and PCI-X (as opposed to PCIe), then it's definitely not going to have USB3. Perhaps putting attaching the USB3 enclosure to the system by way of a USB2 hub might work? Otherwise, the firmware adjustment might be the way to go. (Or a motherboard upgrade...) --=20 :wq