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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:45:28PM +0200, pk wrote: |
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> Will you be using these (huge!) drives as boot drives or merely as |
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> storage? If the latter and you're really desperate (haven't tried this |
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> myself) there should be an option to turn off the automatic discovery of |
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> drives in the BIOS and (possibly) let the kernel discover them (again |
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> haven't tried it but I don't see why you can't "hotswap" the drives |
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> without BIOS aid)... |
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Just storage. Currently my bulk storage is two 300GB SATA drives, |
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about 90% full, so I figured an upgrade was in order. I poked around |
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the BIOS screens and don' remember any way to turn off discovery. But |
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I'll check again, since I hadn't been looking for that specific possibility. |
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> Also, this is an "advanced format" drive that emulates 512-byte sectors |
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> so there may be some fiddling before getting it right: |
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> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/ |
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I replaced a failing PATA (nee IDE) drive at the same time, which is |
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what triggered this whole mess, and notice that fdisk now defaults the |
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start sector to 2048 insyead of 63, presumably for the same reason. |
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