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 1SglgV-0007lD-ET for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:48:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F110E07B3; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBAAE0663 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:46:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92F71B4005 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:46:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.116 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.116 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.107, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OI7sBkbCimll for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C5FC1B4014 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SgleL-0008JK-9P for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:46:25 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-182-87.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.182.87]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:46:25 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-182-87.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:46:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:46:15 -0700 Message-ID: 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-182-87.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120618142849.GO4722@crowfix.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3195d091-5916-47fe-b6ac-aba40511414a X-Archives-Hash: 5bfd5a1e95ff82888dd8930359b9916c 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?