On Tue, June 19, 2012 4:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:54:26 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
>> >> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit
>> >> card ;-)
>> >
>> > That's implicit in the wedding vows :(
>>
>> That can be solved by making sure she has a dec
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:05 PM, wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:49:48AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> A thought...if the system is old enough that it only has PCI and PCI-X
>> (as opposed to PCIe), then it's definitely not going to have USB3.
>>
>> Perhaps putting attaching the USB3 enclosur
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Is the dr
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:49:48AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> A thought...if the system is old enough that it only has PCI and PCI-X
> (as opposed to PCIe), then it's definitely not going to have USB3.
>
> Perhaps putting attaching the USB3 enclosure to the system by way of a
> USB2 hub might wor
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, wrote:
> 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.
Is the drive powered by USB, or an external power supply? USB3
supplies more power
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>>> ...
>>> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in
>>> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would
>>> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb
On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>> ...
>> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in
>> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would
>> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any
>> analogous steps for the 4
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:54:26 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit
> >> card ;-)
> >
> > That's implicit in the wedding vows :(
>
> That can be solved by making sure she has a decent paying job herself :)
That worked for you??? :-O
-
On Tue, June 19, 2012 1:37 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Felix, did you follow any
>> analogous steps for the 4TB drives?
>>
>> (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my
>> aggregate volumes.)
>
>
> Complet
On Tue, June 19, 2012 12:06 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit card ;-)
>
> That's implicit in the wedding vows :(
That can be solved by making sure she has a decent paying job hers
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit card ;-)
That's implicit in the wedding vows :(
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Felix, did you follow any
>> analogous steps for the 4TB drives?
>>
>> (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my
>> aggregate volumes.)
>
> Completely OT but what the heck: :-)
>
>
On Jun 19, 2012 6:45 AM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
> Michael Mol wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Felix, did you follow any
> > analogous steps for the 4TB drives?
> >
> > (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my
> > aggregate volumes.)
>
>
> Comp
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
Michael Mol wrote:
[snip]
> Felix, did you follow any
> analogous steps for the 4TB drives?
>
> (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my
> aggregate volumes.)
Completely OT but what the heck: :-)
I built a 12TB FreeNAS Storage box for
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:24:16 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> Found a Tyan page for my motherboard. Didn't see any obvious fixes
> for SATA size. I also don't remember my BIOS version, I'll have to
> check that.
lshw will show you the BIOs version without rebooting.
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:45:28PM +0200, pk wrote:
> Will you be using these (huge!) drives as boot drives or merely as
> storage? If the latter and you're really desperate (haven't tried this
> myself) there should be an option to turn off the automatic discovery of
> drives in the BIOS and (pos
On 2012-06-18 16:34, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> 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).
Ah, the deskstar 7K4000 is readily available on
On 2012-06-18 16:57, Michael Mol wrote:
> I only posted the link to the Seagate drive, since that was the first
> one that popped up in my search. Point is, the 4TB drives do exist.
Hm, now that you mentioned it I think I've read something about this a
while ago (long enough time has gone for me
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:48 AM, pk wrote:
> On 2012-06-18 16:24, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/
>>
>> "Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache
>> 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive"
>
> Hm... then Sea
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:48:09PM +0200, pk wrote:
> That would be a possibility of course... but if that fails he also have
> this option:
> http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm
> (I'm sure there are similar options from other manufacturers)...
My google-fu is deteriorating. I didn't see t
On 2012-06-18 16:24, Michael Mol wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/
>
> "Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache
> 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive"
Hm... then Seagate needs to update their product page:
http://www.se
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:24:58AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM, 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 fro
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
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM, 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 mea
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
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:11:31AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:06:54AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:16:24 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> >
> > > I plugged two 4TB SATA drives in and the BIOS hangs trying to display
> > > the disk size.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:06:54AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:16:24 -0700, 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.
>
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:35:03PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> 32bit or 64 bit system?
Dual opteron, ~amd64.
> Kernel options for large file systems?
Yes.
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:16:24 -0700, 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.
Have you updated the BIOS to the latest available version?
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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 f
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
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