>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> writes:
>> Motherboard with UEFI BIOS or compatible controller card and >> compatible OS needed for drives greater than 2.2TB >> >> I assume that a SATA-3 drive will work on a SATA-2 controller; it >> just won't run as fast as if it was on a SATA-3 controller. But >> what is this about drives greater than 2.2 TB? John> Never mind. I found this on Seagate's web site: Some (many?) larger, newer drives can't be used as boot devices on non-UEFI bios motherboards, apparently. As long as you are booting off of something else, you should be okay, I think. I've got a couple 3TB drives waiting to get plugged into a file server which came with that warning. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
