[CentOS] 3TB External USB Drive isn't recognized

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Mike McCarthy wrote:
> Update to CentOS6 or try reformatting them to multiple ext3 (under 2TB)
> partitions.
>
> On 08/12/2013 09:59 AM, james wrote:
>> We have a 3TB external USB drive that I am trying to attach to some
>> CentOS5 servers. I have tried an older Dell PE1950 and a newer R310 but
neither
>> one seems to be able to read the drive. It works no problem on windows
>> servers/workstations and I was able to format with NTFS.

Oh, right, related: it's almost a complete certainty that the drive's
*real* blocksize is 4k, but has internal code to present it as 512bytes.
When you format the drive, be 100% sure to align it correctly: for parted,
tell it 0.0TB, which will put it at 1M. The alignment really *does* make a
difference in access and throughput speed.

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