2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de>: > 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.
Thanks. I can't do it right now. I think tomorrow I'll send what you want. -- 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/cagzenofuddiq0kmagyfjnk_b41+1-envqplthb_zjszzh-r...@mail.gmail.com
