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GPT 3TB Hard Drives on SnakeOS #372

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hey guys,

I'm kinda new into Snake-OS and I'm having troubles with this issue. I saw 
something here and there but I couldn't really find a solution for this case.

Is there any way to use a 3TB (or larger) hard drive on SnakeOS? Even if I have 
to make two partitions os 1.5 for example...

I was going mad to share an HDD 4-Bay case directly over the network and 
SnakeOS and K-330 does it perfectly but I'm just having this specific problem 
now.

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rafasnu...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2014 at 12:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Anything above 2TB requires GPT partitions. SnakeOS only supports MBR.

The kernel actually supports GPT and turning it on would be trivial.. but last 
time I toyed with that it produced some unfirendly warnings when I actually 
attached a GPT disk.. the partitions still worked though.

If you want to play guinea pig I can put up a GPT enabled build. You would have 
to format the disk on another computer though, preferibly as EXT3 because the 
performance with NTFS is terrible.

Original comment by stefansc...@googlemail.com on 17 Feb 2014 at 2:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I'm happy to be a guinea pig as I have two 3TB drives that I want to connect to 
my SnakeOS WLX-652 device. Device is already useless for me if it won't support 
the GPT drives so it can't get any worse. I updated to the latest version of 
SnakeOS but it still doesn't recognize the drives

I don't know how to recompile the kernel and I haven't really played with 
commands in Linux for over 10 years so unless it's a bin file that I can just 
update from the web interface for the device I might need some step-by-step 
instructions to go with it.

Original comment by wcrof...@gmail.com on 6 May 2014 at 2:25