3TB and Linux?

[aaron d]

look up GPT.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:52 AM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:18:34AM -0800, William Park wrote:
> > Anyone using 3TB harddisk on Linux?
> > Do you have to use any special PCIe card or vendor supplied drivers?
> > Is the disk on SATA port or USB port?
> >
> > Specs for WD 3TB disk says that Linux needs special PCIe card (hinting
> > that it's chipset issue) which ships with the WD 3TB disk.  But, specs
> > for Hitachi 3TB disk doesn't mention about requiring special PCIe
> > card, but does mention whole other things about GUID partition table,
> > UEFI BIOS, etc.
>
> Okey, I bought Hitachi 3TB 7200rpm 6Gbps.  It seems that GNU "parted" is
> the only program that can handle its size.  It complains that /dev/sdg1
> is not aligned properly, until you move the beginning to 1MB.  Don't
> understand, and too messy.
>
> Since this will be "backup" disk, I decided to use the entire disk
> /dev/sdg without partitioning.  It's going well.
> --
> William
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