[PLUG] Can I use a 3 TB internal drive?

[Larry Brigman]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net>wrote:

> >>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:
>
> >> Motherboard with UEFI BIOS or compatible controller card and
> >> compatible OS needed for drives greater than 2.2TB
> >>
> >> I assume that a SATA-3 drive will work on a SATA-2 controller; it
> >> just won't run as fast as if it was on a SATA-3 controller. But
> >> what is this about drives greater than 2.2 TB?
>
> John> Never mind. I found this on Seagate's web site:
>
> Some (many?) larger, newer drives can't be used as boot devices on
> non-UEFI bios motherboards, apparently.  As long as you are booting
> off of something else, you should be okay, I think.
>
> I've got a couple 3TB drives waiting to get plugged into a file server
> which came with that warning.
>
> There are a few tricks that allow large drives like this to boot even
without
uefi motherboards.

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/730440-using-the-new-guid-partition-table-in-linux-good-bye-ancient-mbr-
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gpt/