On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:21 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
I know there are different methods for formatting large disks but this one doesn't even seem to show up as a/dev/ device. I supplied the dmesg output I see when I plug in the device. Is this a limitation of CentOS5? Do I need some additional package / driver / update?
CentOS 5 does not support GPT disks, and MBR disks have an absolute maximum size of 2TB
Did you mean does not support booting from gpt, or does not support them on USB? I have a pair of these running in in software raid one on an old 32-bit box running CentOS5.
# parted /dev/sde print
Model: ATA Hitachi HDS72303 (scsi) Disk /dev/sde: 3001GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB ext3 raid