On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]>wrote:
> >>>>> "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. > > There are a few tricks that allow large drives like this to boot even without uefi motherboards. http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/730440-using-the-new-guid-partition-table-in-linux-good-bye-ancient-mbr- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gpt/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
