Topic: Gparted Help

[purvis]

More than likely, your USB 3TB drive will not work.
Even if you go it to working.
You could face troubles down the road if you have to pull the drive out of its USB casing
because manufacturer specific SATA hardware that allow some of these drives to be formated to 4096 byte sectors to be seen as 512 bytes to an OS.
I read specifically that even Centos 6 would not support boot up to a non MBR formatted drive and that they are just supporting data drives with the 4096 sector size formatted drives.

I did not realize that AFFA supported USB external drives. I thought it was only for communicating with another server.

I have purchased two 3 TB drive also. One in a USB external case and another as a bare drive.
Both gave me nothing but headaches.
If SME supports multiple USB drives. I would try to use multiple 2TB drives. They may be cheaper in the long run. Specially with your time.


   

[derekb]

hi purvis

i dont want to boot from the 3tb drive. i want to use is as an external for affa 

hi Janet

looks like i will have some module issues witht he conversion - i will have to schedule this for another day.

Also changing the value to 0 on my default did not work - it reverted back to normal...

[root@netkeeper ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/main/root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/md1
default=2
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/smeserver.xpm.gz
foreground 000000
background 4E95D3
title Welcome to Netkeeper Pro III (2.6.18-348.12.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5 ro root=/dev/main/root
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5.img
title Welcome to Netkeeper Pro III (2.6.18-348.6.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 ro root=/dev/main/root
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.img
title Welcome to Netkeeper Pro III (2.6.18-274.7.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 ro root=/dev/main/root
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-274.7.1.el5.img

[janet]

derekb

Also changing the value to 0 on my default did not work - it reverted back to normal...

If you edit grub.conf using
nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
& change it to read
default=0
timeout=5
& then save it, the new value should be retained.

Unless of course you select a different kernel from the boot up splash screen, because when you select the third kernel listed, then the value will be permanently changed to
default=2
which is possibly what happened in your case.

[elmarconi]

If you edit grub.conf using
nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
& change it to read
default=0
timeout=5
& then save it, the new value should be retained.

Unless of course you select a different kernel from the boot up splash screen, because when you select the third kernel listed, then the value will be permanently changed to
default=2
which is possibly what happened in your case.

Please check if there are in fact these kernel images there:

ls -la /boot/vmlinuz*

[purvis]

derekb

Did you ever get the external usb 3tb to working.
I am working on some drives and i might have some time to work on it.