Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:45:28PM +0200, pk wrote:

> Will you be using these (huge!) drives as boot drives or merely as
> storage? If the latter and you're really desperate (haven't tried this
> myself) there should be an option to turn off the automatic discovery of
> drives in the BIOS and (possibly) let the kernel discover them (again
> haven't tried it but I don't see why you can't "hotswap" the drives
> without BIOS aid)...

Just storage.  Currently my bulk storage is two 300GB SATA drives,
about 90% full, so I figured an upgrade was in order.  I poked around
the BIOS screens and don' remember any way to turn off discovery.  But
I'll check again, since I hadn't been looking for that specific possibility.

> Also, this is an "advanced format" drive that emulates 512-byte sectors
> so there may be some fiddling before getting it right:
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/

I replaced a failing PATA (nee IDE) drive at the same time, which is
what triggered this whole mess, and notice that fdisk now defaults the
start sector to 2048 insyead of 63, presumably for the same reason.

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