HoSnoopy Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 I read few in the net about the ahci-driver of the A20-Board. I have a Cubietruck and I want to use a hdd with more than 2TB. Is it - theoretical or in principal possible? My HDD is found but only 2TB of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooperior Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 It is possible. At least for banana pi M1 (A20) it can handle a 3TB hdd with no issues. Just remember that you have to change your disk partition table to GPT instead of standard MBR because the latter is limited to 2.2 gb. This is regarding SATA connection, if you use some kind of usb-to-sata adaptor, check that it is able to handle >2.2 TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 You should put "formatting 3tb drive linux" or similar to the Google. Not related to Cubietruck. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gpt/ https://joshstrange.com/ubuntu-formatting-a-3tb-drive http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1854195/3tb-hard-drive-2tb.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoSnoopy Posted January 9, 2017 Author Share Posted January 9, 2017 Thanks! I actually have a 5TB HDD :-}. But I'll try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoSnoopy Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 So I tried it and it works! Thanks ! uli@cubix:~$ df -hDateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf.... /dev/sda1 4,6T 292G 4,1T 7% /mnt(still copying files ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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