On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:05:17 -0500 Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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;
Evan, Is your motherboard MBR or GPT? I have had a nasty experience with my old motherboard and a new Western Digital GPT formatted drive. http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/RevLinux/#x1-80000D I found that Western Digital GPT drives were difficult to use. I was able to make Seagate drives work -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson