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<font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Steve,<br>
<br>
Out of curiosity, are the new drives "4K native" sector drives,
and is this the same as the old drives you're replacing? If the
system's old enough its BIOS might not support that & is
expecting to have "512n" (512-native) or "512e" (512-emulated)
sector-size drives.<br>
<br>
Other than that, I'm not sure what it could be beyond being
Toshiba brand (which I've personally never had good experience
with, but that's only anecdotal).<br>
<br>
-Robert<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/15/23 13:36, Steve Tynor via Ale
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:0100018b34698301-9aa27a36-02f1-414a-890d-3f38c21f6cd8-000000@email.amazonses.com">Before
I drive back to Microcenter _again_, I'll try asking the group if
you have any ideas for something I should try.
<br>
<br>
One of the drives in my LVM RAID1 array started spewing errors to
/var/log/syslog. The drives are about 5 years old, so out of
caution, I decided to replace both rather than just the one. I
thought I'd take the opportunity to increase the storage size
since larger drives are pretty cost competitive now.
<br>
<br>
OLD Drives: WD Red NAS 4TB
<br>
<br>
NEW Drives (first attempt): Toshiba N300 NAS 8TB
<br>
<br>
I failed and removed the bad drive from the array, shutdown,
swapped one of the new drives in for the old drive and...
<br>
<br>
The BIOS does not recognize the new drive. Tried swapping SATA
cables, power cables - nothing. Old drive works with all cables;
new drive fails to work with any combo.
<br>
<br>
I could not find any documentation or internet commentary to
suggest a BIOS size limitation, but I could not think of any other
reason for the problem. (FWIW: Dell Precision T1700)
<br>
<br>
So I took the drives back to Microcenter and exchanged them for
4TB variants
<br>
<br>
NEW Drives (second attempt): Toshiba N300 NAS 4TB
<br>
<br>
and... They ALSO aren't seen by the BIOS. (same attempt to swap
around cables, same failure to get the new drive seen). All 4
SATA ports are enabled by the BIOS - and the old drive shows up no
matter which port I plug it into.
<br>
<br>
Both the old and new drives a 6Gb/s SATA III drives and are
advertised as 4TB capacity. I don't see any reason one would
work and the other wouldn't.
<br>
<br>
<br>
So.. Before I drive back to Microcenter and try to buy WD branded
drives (which seem like an insane solution), I'm hoping someone on
the list will have an idea of something I may not have tried ...?
<br>
<br>
Thanks!
<br>
Steve
<br>
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