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[Weiti]

Hi, is it possible to use an 3TB disk internally in my Xtrend 9200?
I'm using OpenPLI 2.1,( if its only possible with 3.0 i'm going to make an upgrade).

Maybe it works with 2 partitions at 1,5TB?

Thanks, Weiti

Edited by Weiti, 29 July 2012 - 13:27.

[MiLo]

It should work, there's nothing preventing you using a large >2GB disk, but I have not seen a report claiming either success nor failure with > 2GB disks. I'd welcome a first.

Probably the box won't be able to initialize it via the menu, so you might have to do that with a Linux machine, or you'll have to type some commands at it. I'd be happy to help out, so I can commit whatever changes are neccesary to support these disks directly from the menu.

[gregoire]

http://openpli.org/f...isc-in-openpli/ : it works fine on 3.0

[Weiti]

thanks a lot. i buy a 3tb disk and report again.

ps: you cant search for 3tb in this forum, query to short

[MiLo]

I'd be interested to know what happens if you initialize the disk on the box (which is strongly recommended - you'll regret it later if you don't). And will be happy to help in getting it to work right if it doesn't...

[pieterg]

I believe you'll need 'parted' for 3TB disks (which is in our feed, but not in the image by default, nor used by e2 to initialize a harddrive)

[MiLo]

Or no partition at all, that ought to work too. Saves a few kB and circumvents any "4k alignment" issues

[Papi2000]

And how should that work?
Would you just mount the Raw-/dev/sda as /media/hdd?
Then there is the question, how to initialize and where the aereas for directory and inodes are stored. And the disk would still be able to be connected to a PC (with Linux) in the case of a defect Box?

[Weiti]

My disk arrived yesterday and I tryed to initialise ist with openpli 2.1.
Result: one partion of about 750GB... (Exactly 2.0TiB free space)
I was not in the mood for installing 3.0, so I used gparted to create two ext4 partions (one partition with 3TB isn't possible), which works fine, first one is mounted as \hdd\ second as sda1.

1.3 TiB are enough at the moment as storage for my timers, the second partition is my archive/musik/PC-backup folder. ( I'm to cheap for buying an NAS )

[MiLo]

...one partition with 3TB isn't possible...

Why not?

[Weiti]

Why not?

don't know the exact message but something about "you try to create XY(about 58.000.000 I think) Sectors, maximum are ~42.000.000
Now I know the reaseon: I missed to use GPT instead of MFT, but, as I wrote, two partitions are fine for me.

To summarize for people who find this thread:
Use GParted to create a GPT ext4 partition, that should work.
It would be intressting if there are errors when writing more then 2TB on such a partition.