On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:08:28 -0500, Paul wrote:


That's a good point.

Amen. Two were given to me (for HD purchases - 1.5T limits), the
other ran $20 (2T limit). All Rosewill.

Interesting, too - is my present BIOS(es) - some I'm not exactly sure
which, over three MBs, haven't that capacity to handle 2T drives,
either. Simple matter, slap it upside in a docking station, run
Easeus to partition it out (via the station's firmware), slap that
baby into the cage array, off the incompatible MB's SATA controller,
and it apparently can't tell the difference. Comes up looks/functions
regularly.

Been awhile since messing with them, and I'd have to double check back
for mistakes, but believe I've perhaps pulled off such. (There's also
a semi-wacko PCI HD controller, SYBA or such, in one that also took a
docking station pre-formatted drive;- drops speed occasionally and is
dog slow with optimizing with Udefrag3 - UltimateDefrag3.)

Horseshoes and hand grenades, modern day marvels of wonder, for living
on "borrowed time," between all this old equipment and the kludge I
put them thru.