[mythtv-users] Slightly OT - adding 3T drives
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Mon Aug 20 17:57:57 UTC 2012
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
> My research confuses me. From what I have read this is a problem
> related to MBR and there is no problem if you use GPT. I won't be
> booting from this disk, and I'll probably partition it to at least two
> partitions if not more.
>
> However, as I say, I am confused. I have been contemplating a new
> motherboard anyway as I need more SATA headers, but I don't really
> want to do that yet (budget).
There are 2 separate problems:
1) can you boot from it
2) can you *see* it: older motherboards and SATA controllers will simply
refuse to recognize the presence of a 3T drive on the cable at all.
The latter is the bugaboo.
Cheers,
-- jra
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