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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:59:13 -0700
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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?