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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:12:35PM +0200, pk wrote: |
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> On 2012-06-18 08:16, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > I plugged two 4TB SATA drives in and the BIOS hangs trying to display the disk size. |
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> >Whether it is the size itself, or from using 4K blocks, I do not know. |
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> This is a bit confusing. Do you mean to say that these are 4TB internal |
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> drives (3.5")? I can't find any manufacturer that manufactures this size |
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> (yet)... Or is it 2x 2TB harddrives in a USB3 enclosure? There are |
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> plenty of those it seems from Seagate, Western digital etc... |
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Hitachi, I think. Fry's had two choies differing in size of cache |
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(64M vs 32M) and some 3TB drives too. I could get the model numbers |
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when I get back to that system (not near it for a few days). |
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> >I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge its presence. |
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> >USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards compatible, but not on my system. |
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> If possible try a BIOS upgrade... if not you can always try this (no |
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> guarantees though): |
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> http://www.addonics.com/products/ad2u3pci.php |
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Interesting ... Cheap enough to be worth trying. Thanks. |
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