Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:21:38 +0100 Joar Jegleim joar.jegl...@gmail.com wrote: I could be completely off mark here, but does that external drive have eSata too ? No, it only has Firewire 400 and USB 2.0 sockets. Your problem resembles a lot something I struggled with a while ago. I'd

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 14, 2013 6:33:31 AM -0600 Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: The confusing thing is that the kernel says it's a 3 TB device, but the utility programs say otherwise. Thanks for your reply, though. I may have to take the device back to the store I bought it and ask

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Scott Bennett wrote: The confusing thing is that the kernel says it's a 3 TB device, but the utility programs say otherwise. There are more than a few SATA to USB adapters that are not capable of dealing with larger devices. I've seen at least one that could not

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 14 Feb 2013, at 17:01, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Scott Bennett wrote: The confusing thing is that the kernel says it's a 3 TB device, but the utility programs say otherwise. There are more than a few SATA to USB adapters that are not capable of

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
I recently bought a 3 TB external hard drive. I attached it to the Firewire (400) bus and waited for my 8.2-STABLE i386 system to recognize it. After a small flurry of Firewire protocol messages, the kernel eventually said, Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2 at sbp0 bus 0