From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 12:21:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EEA29B for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:21:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joar.jegleim@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x229.google.com (mail-we0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA46DF1 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:21:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f169.google.com with SMTP id t11so1914787wey.14 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:21:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=t6AfJjnhdhXB7UUJ2J35lzmwm+1e+lHc0Jjt/frAbJ8=; b=pPlIfAixAjkaLcfUJnoWBV9kcXdbUXpQ7Drqfl/6OECcxrYEz0bgVtxmXOjLp5yUj2 orOkgz0U6eF1q2hvyELDiOrc7Rk0f3h75Z3nrXeMT+qkDtUmujEnx0CnJkbn2bnKio+T wPLyFJyfUrgjVHm78m8++GfpRXONaBn7DHe12hbWU4y3g7oQyN4qdRma44GdliP3LVs0 DpBA5T5htIQJHdF2f7RHMCyJ5Th5wSZVx1AIb3HTkWNnJsX+UCsugZv3EpsaJwaSHhBT GTfzZSEyBX3KQLT/QDxsR8WrKPmzbtIhEit36Fy58gjTBxs6LG3pw/TpdUiZM1QKmaAp AJWg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.86.38 with SMTP id m6mr29366036wjz.13.1360844499173; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.234.7 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:21:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201302141116.r1EBGVIi019834@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <201302141116.r1EBGVIi019834@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:21:38 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 3 TB disk troubles From: Joar Jegleim To: Scott Bennett Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:21:47 -0000 I could be completely off mark here, but does that external drive have eSata too ? Your problem resembles a lot something I struggled with a while ago. I'd bought an external hd case + a 3TB drive for my girlfriend , the external hd case supported eSATA and usb . I had a lot of problems when connecting that 3TB drive to my laptop via usb (I didn't have eSATA), the drive showed up as only 2TB . It turned out that the external drive case required to be connected via eSATA for +2TB drives, the manual said so, I had only forgotten about that . Via eSATA the drive was recognized as 3TB, I think the 'problem' was OS agnostic, since the same happened on my girlfriends mac. regards Joar Jegleim On 14 February 2013 12:16, Scott Bennett wrote: > I recently bought a 3 TB external hard drive. I attached it to the > Firewire (400) bus and waited for my 8.2-STABLE i386 system to recognize it. > After a small flurry of Firewire protocol messages, the kernel eventually > said, > > Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2 at sbp0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0 > Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2: 50.000MB/s transfers > Feb 12 23:35:42 hellas kernel: da2: 2861588MB (5860533167 512 byte sectors: 255H > 63S/T 364801C) > > So far, so good, I thought. > Next I tried to use gpart(8) to set up a partition table. However, > gpart, gpte (from sysutils/gpte), diskinfo(8), et al. only see the device > as a 2 TB drive. > > hellas# diskinfo -v /dev/da2 > /dev/da2 > 512 # sectorsize > 2199023253504 # mediasize in bytes (2T) > 4294967292 # mediasize in sectors > 0 # stripesize > 0 # stripeoffset > 267349 # Cylinders according to firmware. > 255 # Heads according to firmware. > 63 # Sectors according to firmware. > # Disk ident. > > hellas# > > I have searched the archives of this list and several others, but > haven't found anything helpful. This disk is *not* intended as a boot > disk, just data storage. Is there any hope of using its full capacity? > Or have I effectively bought an overpriced 2 TB drive? > Please Cc: me directly in any replies because I am subscribed to > the digest form of this list and would like to see responses without > having to wait up to 24 hours. :-) Thanks in advance for any help! > > > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > ********************************************************************** > * Internet: bennett at mp.cs.niu.edu * > *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * > * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * > * -- a standing army." * > * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * > ********************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ---------------------- Joar Jegleim Homepage: http://cosmicb.no Linkedin: http://no.linkedin.com/in/joarjegleim fb: http://www.facebook.com/joar.jegleim AKA: CosmicB @Freenode ----------------------