Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de>: > > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the > >> > OS they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should > >> > work. But with 512 byte sectors you have a 2 TB limit when you > >> > use MBR partitioning. > >> > > >> > 3 TB disks with 4 KB sectors both hardware (physical) and software > >> > (logical) should just work, provided the Linux is new enough. > >> > > >> > On Squeeze use -cu as additional options (see manpage). > >> > >> Sorry for jumping in here, but I can't figure out (from your post) > >> which command requires the additional options: -cu. Which manpage? > > > > fdisk. Sorry if I didn´t mention it anywhere in my post. > > Thanks, I've tried everything but not success. The problem is that the > disk is already half full and aligned with WD tools. I am just waiting > for linux to be able to read it and write it as efficiently as Windows > does it, at the moment I am not able to read it, which is very > frustrating.
I would like to see some information from the disk, like - relevant stuff from hdparm -I /dev/yourdisk (feel free to skip serial number if you do not want to post it here) - fdisk -cul /dev/yourdisk - tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog / dmesg when the kernel detects the disk for starters. You need to use GPT if the disk reports 512 byte sectors to the OS. Thats no problem, when its just a data disk. Try gdisk on the disk. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205010044.24643.mar...@lichtvoll.de
