On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 23:16 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I have an ancient system which was quite the bee's knees in its day 8 years > ago, but is showing its age. > > 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. > > 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. > > I put one of the drives into an old USB 2.0 enclosure, and while it was found > and useable, it saw the size as 1.6TB. > > I can't get a USB 3.0 PCI card; there are PCI-e cards, but my system is PCI > and PCI-X. > > I did get a SATA II PCI card (SATA III requires PCI-e), but won't get a > chance to plug it in for a few days. I'm hoping it will let me use the 4T > drives. > > Does anyone know of any verified cheap tricks to make this old system > recognize the 4TB drives properly? I'm not interested in any NAS or other > expensive solutions; I'd just as soon buy a cheap modern system and lots of > USB 3.0 disk enclosures. But I'd rather not go that route yet. >
32bit or 64 bit system? Kernel options for large file systems? BillK
