Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?
Howdie, fellow Debianites!
I'm planning to surprise my unsuspecting self with the above hard drive
for Christmas, but have read some alarming reports about
incompatibilities with GNU/Linux partitioning. Apparently, there are no
less than two distinct problems with these drivers:
1) an alignment problem due to the passage from 512-byte to 4096-byte
sector sizes, which seems to heavily affect transfer rates, and
2) a possibly related, but separate nonetheless, problem of wrong drive
sizes being recognized (either by the BIOS and/or by the kernel); such
as, 1TB being recognized instead of 2TB.
http://www.osnews.com/story/22872/Linux_Not_Fully_Prepared_for_4096-Byte_Sector_Hard_Drives
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/unable-to-boot-fresh-install-on-2tb-harddrive-debian-ubuntu-838681
http://forums.storagereview.com/index.php/topic/28850-2tb-wd20ears-showing-up-as-1tb/
Would very much like to hear about any first-hand experiences you may
have in making these drives work with Debian -- squeeze specifically.
Will be very grateful for any feedback.
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