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.
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