On Wednesday 16 July 2014 18:45:51 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > On Wednesday 16 July 2014 17:51:21 Przemek Klosowski did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > Around 2TB there's YET ANOTHER ONE stupid software disk size > > limitation that maybe prevents your BIOS/motherboard combination > > from seeing your new drive. It may or may not use 4192 byte > > sectors: Toshiba website is really skimpy on manuals so I can't > > figure out how to locate this info even if you did provide the model > > number. If you could boot something from CDROM or flash drive, just > > use the smartctl command to find the sector info > > > > smartctl -a /dev/sda > > Thanks, I'll check that yet this evening.
and after I had installed smartmontools, and getting a fairly detailed report, but the drives block size isn't shown anyplace in the report. > > smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.14.9-200.fc20.x86_64] > > (local build) > > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, > > www.smartmontools.org > > > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > > .... > > Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical > > Its running now, but I had to bring both drives in here and run gedit > to partition & format them. The 250Gb's / partition was not > recoverable, but gedit reformatted it just fine. > > I fooled around with the 2T, finally getting a 500 meg /boot, about 5G > for swap, and the rest was /. Formatted both to ext4. > > Took it back out and plugged it back in, skipped the formatting & went > straight to the install which completed nominally. > > Then I hand carved the network/interfaces, resolv.conf and 2 or so > others, rebooted. and its now online just fine. So the old drive is > reformatted & seems to be ok, but I don't have time to screw with it > as I have company coming the first of next week, and have got to do > something with this midden heap we call home. Reminds me though I > have to go fix the hosts file too. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- ------- 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 > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
