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Aspirant

Jan 20, 2017

Readynas 4200 and 3TB on USB cradle only 746/801 GB...HELP

Hello... I have a 4200 here that i need to run with a USB attached 3tb Seagate drive... It shows me 746 gb availalabe and i am able to format that as well... But i can't get it to see the full ...

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Natolla

Aspirant

Jan 20, 2017

Hello...

Thx for your response...

I already checked the cradle and it supports up to 4 TB according to the tech support...

Will take a look at sgdisk...

Can you make a litte suggestion how to use?!

Havent heard about that yet...

EDIT: Played around with it but it also just shows me the 746.5 GiB

And somehow it seems that it is not writing the info to the drive...everytime i do the commands it does the same output...

Thx!!

Natolla

Aspirant

Jan 20, 2017

Hello...Checked around with that tool sgdisk

Here the output that it gives me with the 3TB drive:

CEANAS:~# sgdisk -p /dev/sdg
Creating new GPT entries.
Disk /dev/sdg: 1565565872 sectors, 746.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 6D0A9B32-E8E6-4BC7-A565-52F643C7DC27
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1565565838
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 1565565805 sectors (746.5 GiB)

Smart hinggegen gibt das aus:

CEANAS:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdg
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-2.6.37.6.RNx86_64.2.4] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST3000DM008-2DM166
Serial Number:    Z5048SJ5
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0a1bc1021
Firmware Version: CC26
User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ACS-2 (unknown minor revision code: 0x001f)
Local Time is:    Fri Jan 20 13:33:59 2017 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 20, 2017
So you've resolved this now?
- Natolla
  Aspirant
  Jan 20, 2017
  Not at all...
  And sorry for the german infront of the second Quote...sometimes i fall back to home...smile
  I have not the slightest idea why it is only showing/detecting these 746 gib...
  The smart shows the drive and its size correct, but not the protition tools i tried so far...
  fdisk failed on it...and your sgdisk is alo not able to see the bigger drive...
  Even that it seems to unerstand GPT...
  Is there any tool, that can do that?!
  Or is there a way to apt-get any modern packages to this old jessie?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 20, 2017
    Did you try formatting in a Mac or PC?