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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM, pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> 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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http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/ |
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"Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache |
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3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive" |
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It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in |
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a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would |
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operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any |
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analogous steps for the 4TB drives? |
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(Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my |
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aggregate volumes.) |
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:wq |
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