Disks we're not limited to <3 TB on 32b systems. The only limit there ever was old MS FAT.
T On Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 2:54 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected] wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > How is the disk connected to your system? USB? Perhaps this applies: > > <https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1840014> > > galen, > > Looks like drives sold in external USB enclosures do have different > firmware on the drives. As a response on that thread wrote, "There have > been > several posts about this type of problem in the past on this forum. The > usual culprit is a USB drive enclosure that has a 32-bit limitation. ... > I've never heard of this problem showing up in Linux with internal drives, > but it's theoretically possible." > > So I guess it's now a 750G drive since it started life as an external > drive and I intended it to remain so, but in a multi-drive bay. > > Thanks very much, > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
