[PLUG] Hard drive: size discrepancy

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 01:31:18 UTC 2018


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 <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com 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
>
>
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