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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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>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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> I put one of the drives into an old USB 2.0 enclosure, and while it was found and useable, |
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>it saw the size as 1.6TB. |
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For a 2TB a usable size of 1.6TB sounds about right... |
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> I can't get a USB 3.0 PCI card; there are PCI-e cards, but my system is PCI and PCI-X. |
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See above... |
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Maybe more questions than answers but hopefully they will give you a |
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clue or two for the correct answer(s)... |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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