Re: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?
On 12/13/2010 03:57 PM, Klistvud wrote:
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.
Hi,
it looks that is some problem with WD20EARS. I don't have WD20EARS but I
found something on the net. I hope it would be helpful.
From WD community. On the end of page is link for solution:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/2TB-WD20EARS-showing-up-as-1TB/m-p/41267/highlight/true#M2194
Other WD community:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?q=WD20EARS+linux
Blog with solution:
http://b1mmer.com/linux/wdhdd/
If it is not a problem for you and if you somehow get that hdd for
Christmas can you let me know (on/off list it doesn't matter) your
experience?
--
Bye,
Goran Dobosevic
Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com
English: www.dobosevic.com/en/
Registered Linux User #503414
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