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 decent paying job
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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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 herself
On Tue, June 19, 2012 1:37 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com 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.)
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
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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 4TB
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk 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
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, fe...@crowfix.com 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
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 work?
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, fe...@crowfix.com 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.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:05 PM, fe...@crowfix.com 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
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
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 from
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 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 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.
Have
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. Whether
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 10:12 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se 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 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. Do you
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:24:58AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se 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,
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:
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 this
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:48 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se 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...
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 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 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
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, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com 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
On Jun 19, 2012 6:45 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com 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
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com 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
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