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

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:11:31AM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:06:54AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:16:24 -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> >
> > > I plugged two 4TB SATA drives in and the BIOS hangs trying to display
> > > the disk size.  Whether it is the size itself, or from using 4K blocks,
> > > I do not know.
> >
> > Have you updated the BIOS to the latest available version?
>
> No, didn't even think about that.  I've never upgraded BIOS an any of
> my systems.  It's a Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro.  Guess I'll google for that.

Found a Tyan page for my motherboard.  Didn't see any obvious fixes
for SATA size.  I also don't remember my BIOS version, I'll have to
check that.

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