[GTALUG] 10TB drive seen as a 2TB drive (twice?)

[Howard Gibson]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:05:17 -0500
Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
> The system already has an SSD as /dec/sda, and two disks one of 3TB and the
> other of 4TB, all working fine.
> 
> When I attach the external drive, lsblock and fdisk -l both report TWO new
> drives, /dev/sdd and /dev/sde, both of 2TB size. I went into set the disk
> from DOS to GPT but the size didn't change;

Evan,

   Is your motherboard MBR or GPT?  I have had a nasty experience with my old motherboard and a new Western Digital GPT formatted drive.  

   http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/RevLinux/#x1-80000D

   I found that Western Digital GPT drives were difficult to use.  I was able to make Seagate drives work 

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Howard Gibson 
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