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On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 23:16 -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> I have an ancient system which was quite the bee's knees in its day 8 years ago, but is showing its age. |
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> 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. |
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> I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge its presence. USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards compatible, but not on my system. |
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> I put one of the drives into an old USB 2.0 enclosure, and while it was found and useable, it saw the size as 1.6TB. |
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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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> I did get a SATA II PCI card (SATA III requires PCI-e), but won't get a chance to plug it in for a few days. I'm hoping it will let me use the 4T drives. |
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> Does anyone know of any verified cheap tricks to make this old system recognize the 4TB drives properly? I'm not interested in any NAS or other expensive solutions; I'd just as soon buy a cheap modern system and lots of USB 3.0 disk enclosures. But I'd rather not go that route yet. |
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32bit or 64 bit system? |
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Kernel options for large file systems? |
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BillK |