On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:12:35PM +0200, pk wrote: > On 2012-06-18 08:16, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > 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. > > This is a bit confusing. Do you mean to say that these are 4TB internal > drives (3.5")? I can't find any manufacturer that manufactures this size > (yet)... Or is it 2x 2TB harddrives in a USB3 enclosure? There are > plenty of those it seems from Seagate, Western digital etc...
Hitachi, I think. Fry's had two choies differing in size of cache (64M vs 32M) and some 3TB drives too. I could get the model numbers when I get back to that system (not near it for a few days). > >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. > > If possible try a BIOS upgrade... if not you can always try this (no > guarantees though): > http://www.addonics.com/products/ad2u3pci.php Interesting ... Cheap enough to be worth trying. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
