Orange Pi Plus 2 3TB HDD over Sata just 746GB

pi_sbc56 · November 17, 2018

Hi,

I've been using armbian in combination with openmediavault for the last years to access my files on an 1TB HDD.
Today I wanted to upgrade the drive to a 3 TB one, but it just shows a capacity 746GB.
Is there a size limit on the GL830 for harddrives or why isn't the real capacity showing up?

fdisk-l:

Disk /dev/sda: 746.5 GiB, 801569724416 bytes, 1565565868 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Joshua

Igor · November 17, 2018

https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+3tb+hdd

pi_sbc56 · November 18, 2018

Hi,
my drive has a gpt table and is perfectly recognized on my main machine (debian 9). So the disk itself is fine.

Regards
joshua

Igor · November 18, 2018

That is strange. Please provide:

armbianmonitor -u

Here is my 8TB attached to, well, true SATA ... but that is irrelevant.

 _   _      _ _           _  _   
| | | | ___| (_) ___  ___| || |  
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \/ __| || |_ 
|  _  |  __/ | | (_) \__ \__   _|
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___/|___/  |_|  
                                 
Welcome to Armbian - Stretch (2018.10) Linux 4.14.74-mvebu

System load:   0.02 0.04 0.00   Up time:       41 days
Memory usage:  3 % of 2018MB    IP:            172.16.100.37
CPU temp:      22°C           
Usage of /:    69% of 15G       storage/:      12% of 7.3T

pi_sbc56 · November 21, 2018

Hi,

this is my armbianmonitor link: http://ix.io/1u5y

I've tried bionic and stretch, both with the same result, sda has 746GB But with stretch fdisk -l shows a size of 2TB?!
I'll download an old debian image from the orangepi site and test if the same problem occurs.
Do you have any ideas?

Regards
Joshua