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'This new Toshiba 2T drive doesn't expose its "block" size to the user, but I suspect its 4192 if not bigger.' I have one of those drives, they're nice. fast, quiet, and reliable. Assume its a DT01ACA200? The 4k sector thing is completely hidden from the system on the other side of the SATA port. It shows itself as 512 byte to the system and deals with everything else internally. The only issue it can cause is with partion alignment, which just slows down access slightly. Theres a partition alignment tool here: https://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/support_services/advanced_format.html If your board has AHCI it wont have any problems with the size of the drive. Theres usually some key like F12 that lets you choose a boot device at startup, if you select the HDD that way it might not time out so quickly. If you've swapped out the SATA cable and ruled out the PSU Id reflash the motherboard BIOS just in case its become corrupt or theres a later version. Failing that, and assuming the drives work in another machine, Id conclude its the board. Outside chance it'll work, but have you tried it with a USB to SATA cable? A lot of boards let you boot from USB either from boot order settings or the F12 thing above. If you dont have one the cables are next to nothing on ebay and amazon. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTxvjOAAoJEDzttOCNrFuc9TYIAMHoZ1BiBgXhc2KpvNfFeY5M WLYLt9J9GAE3h6HmEVEG81Y11yDMn7Nppmf4ETD+L2w2fO7dQTaOc5Oa2PrqovZ+ uiVIGL0bW4dCgBZDahQfc8DhGiqLBDPme2owxKnUrkJ0aq1jR8BZJSWUDqxE9+7+ 98+QKRVKbU+Tk0M6LRIiMjdqUqS6Cj+tIbXCCY8e2KxLRqbEqKQiZ5e5oBPeupCy ZXzXC+Iw4LvQmDxWXPSXR16eKmLNlbn81Zf9YX6J7bpcMc3ubYfJYa0+Zfjdg7Lh DmTKcJIS+AQ4jVDClKVIaoDq/aABI/xAh0biHd8BMLHGZ1rvsxQTX0jbTt8vvZs= =0xNW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
