Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>:
> Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues:
>> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>:
>> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
>> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the
>> >> > OS they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should
>> >> > work. But with 512 byte sectors you have a 2 TB limit when you
>> >> > use MBR partitioning.
>> >> >
>> >> > 3 TB disks with 4 KB sectors both hardware (physical) and software
>> >> > (logical) should just work, provided the Linux is new enough.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Squeeze use -cu as additional options (see manpage).
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for jumping in here, but I can't figure out (from your post)
>> >> which command requires the additional options: -cu. Which manpage?
>> >
>> > fdisk. Sorry if I didn´t mention it anywhere in my post.
>>
>> Thanks, I've tried everything but not success. The problem is that the
>> disk is already half full and aligned with WD tools. I am just waiting
>> for linux to be able to read it and write it as efficiently as Windows
>> does it, at the moment I am not able to read it, which is very
>> frustrating.
>
> I would like to see some information from the disk, like
>
> - relevant stuff from hdparm -I /dev/yourdisk (feel free to skip serial
> number if you do not want to post it here)
> - fdisk -cul /dev/yourdisk
> - tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog / dmesg when the kernel detects the disk
>
> for starters.
>
> You need to use GPT if the disk reports 512 byte sectors to the OS. Thats
> no problem, when its just a data disk. Try gdisk on the disk.
Thanks. I can't do it right now. I think tomorrow I'll send what you want.
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