3TB and Linux? -- yes, it works

[William Park]

Thanks.  After reading a bit, this is what I did:
	- download 'gdisk'.  Slackware doesn't have it yet.
	- make a single partition (/dev/sdg1), accepting all the defaults
	  from 'gdisk'.  It starts from 2048 sector to the end.
	- install LILO to "MBR" of /dev/sdg as usual.
	- boot

I was able to boot on my AM2 motherboard with old BIOS.  This was
surprise, because I thought I had to use UEFI BIOS which can only be
found in new LGA1155 (Sandy Bridge) motherboards.
-- 
William

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:52:28AM -0500, aaron d wrote:
> 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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