June 9, 201214 yr I set up unraid yesterday, i have a few 1tb USB drive's and wanted to make a server out of them. I installed a 3tb drive in my rig via sata connection, precleared it and then set about copying data from my other usb's to it so that I could then wipe them and add them once the data had been moved I left it over night, and everything copied fine, I shutdown the system properly and proceded to take the 1tb out of it's case and installed it inside my rig, fired up the computer and it's stuck on the bios screen If i unplug the 3tb drive, the system boot's I've connected up the 3tb drive via usb, and this is the info it gives me via fdisk " WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sdb: 801.6 GB, 801569725952 bytes 256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 97071 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 266306 2147483647+ ee GPT root@tower:/ " I've also fired up the drive on a windows box to see the partiton information, that's showing me the same thing, 800gb healthy GPT protective Anyone know what's going on ?
June 10, 201214 yr Author Yeah, its just hanging on the 1st bios screen, i cant access the bios with the drive installed, unplugged and its still set to boot from usb only
June 10, 201214 yr Author tried disabling smart, and a few other thing's on the bios screen, with the drive connected it still just hang's on the "press delete to enter setup" screen is there anyway I can mount the drive via usb in unraid, i want to check if the data is still there ( i still have the original backup ) and if so ill put it thought seatools to see if i can bring it back to life
June 11, 201214 yr Author - Update - I managed to get the drive working, i plugged it into my mac, wiped it ( it only showed up as 800gb) than ran seatools on it to set it back to max capacity fired up unraid, checked the drive, show'ed up as 3tb, run pre-clear, rebooted again, formated and added the drive to the array, rebooted to install some scripts, and im stuck back at the bios screen I think something that's been wrote to the boot record of the drive is causing this lockup Im using 5.0rc4 (plus) Anyone any idea's?
June 11, 201214 yr Sounds like your motherboard needs a BIOS update. Whether or not that exists for your particular board is up to the manufacturer.
June 11, 201214 yr Author yeah, i was thinking the same, checked it out and I have the lasted update for this board (its a old one) Stange thing is, it recognizes 3tb if I use mbr and a windows filesystem?
June 11, 201214 yr Stange thing is, it recognizes 3tb if I use mbr and a windows filesystem? "Recognize" it is one thing. "Use" it properly is another. Try to partition and formatting it base the 3GB boundary, and write files past that point and it may just wrap around and corrupt the drive. I would NOT use a 3TB drive on that BIOS w/o confirmation from the mfg that 3TB drives are fully supported.
June 12, 201214 yr Stange thing is, it recognizes 3tb if I use mbr and a windows filesystem? "Recognize" it is one thing. "Use" it properly is another. Try to partition and formatting it base the 3GB boundary, and write files past that point and it may just wrap around and corrupt the drive. I would NOT use a 3TB drive on that BIOS w/o confirmation from the mfg that 3TB drives are fully supported. There is absolutely no way to use an MBR type partition on ANY drive greater than 2.2TB. (well, unless you use sectors greater than 512 bytes each... and NOBODY does, at least not yet on any disk interface, even on those for 3TB drives...) Sorry... Joe L.
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