Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

[Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@t-online.de>]

On 06/03/2009 09:05 AM, Rod James Bio wrote:

Its a Seagate HD. I dont have the exact model number. Now I am checking if this is a hardware problem. One thing that bothers me is why does 32bit works?

Klaus Jantzen wrote:

On 06/03/2009 07:46 AM, Rod James Bio wrote:

We've been doing an installation on this LTSP Server we are trying to
build. While formatting the 500 GB HD the partitioning
process is stock at 33%. Can anyone suggest if there are limitations or
problems or past experiences?

Anyway just for additional information:
I tried using lenny 64bit installer to no avail and 32bit installation is successful but we want to use 64bit because the machine has 5GB of memory so as to maximize the memory.
Processor is Intel QUAD Q9550.

--Rod James

Who is the manufacturer of your HD? What is the type?
I installed Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 on two 500 GB HDs with no problem.

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K. Jantzen

If it is a Seagate ST3500320AS (Barracuda ?)  you might have a firmware problem.
For this reason I had to exchange my two drives (which was done with no problems).
The firmware for this HD _must_ be version SD1A. You could download and install the new firmware
yourself (refer to the Seagate website) but that is of any use only if  you load the new firmware _before_ you
do any formatting otherwise you should return it to your dealer or to Seagate.

If you have any questions, let me know.

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K. Jantzen