It's not
an Xmas present as it was bought a few weeks ago, but I'm
trying to install a 10TB WD (Red Pro) disk and it's not
exactly going to plan.
My
original plan was to put the disk into an external case, plug
it in to format and copy over files, then install it in the
case.
The system
already has an SSD as /dec/sda, and two disks one of 3TB and
the other of 4TB, all working fine.
When I
attach the external drive, lsblock and fdisk -l both report
TWO new drives, /dev/sdd and /dev/sde, both of 2TB size. I
went into set the disk from DOS to GPT but the size didn't
change;
Now fdisk -l reports:
Disk /dev/sdd: 2 TiB,
2199023255040 bytes, 4294967295 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 49FDD63D-6C95-46F0-B7B1-650038D8FB9B
Disk /dev/sde: 2 TiB, 2199023255040 bytes, 4294967295
sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
And cat
/proc/scsi/scsi reports:
Host: scsi10 Channel: 00 Id:
00 Lun: 00
Vendor: WDC WD10 Model: 1KFBX-68R56N0 Rev: 0200
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 04
Host: scsi10 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01
Vendor: WDC WD10 Model: 1KFBX-68R56NLUN1 Rev: 0200
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 04
The disk model is WD101KFBX and its
specs can be found here.
All of the online guides I've consulted say that the full
capacity of the drive should be visible once I switch it to
GPT mode.
Is this a USB limitation? Or is there
something else I need to change? I've attached the output of hwinfo if that's any
help.
Thanks for any suggestions!