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On 2012-06-18 16:34, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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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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Ah, the deskstar 7K4000 is readily available on Hitachi Global Storage |
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(which is owned by Western digital) home page... Funny, I first looked |
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at Hitachis homepage and they refered to Toshibas home page... :-s |
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Will you be using these (huge!) drives as boot drives or merely as |
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storage? If the latter and you're really desperate (haven't tried this |
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myself) there should be an option to turn off the automatic discovery of |
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drives in the BIOS and (possibly) let the kernel discover them (again |
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haven't tried it but I don't see why you can't "hotswap" the drives |
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without BIOS aid)... |
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Also, this is an "advanced format" drive that emulates 512-byte sectors |
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so there may be some fiddling before getting it right: |
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https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/ |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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