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

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:46:15PM -0700, walt wrote:
> On 06/18/2012 07:28 AM, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:59:13AM -0700, walt wrote:
> >> On 06/17/2012 11:16 PM, felix@×××××××.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?

Compiled as a module, and not loaded.  Hadn't thought of that.  I'll
try it when I get back there.

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