From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 9/27/2025 5:42 PM, Paul wrote:   
   > On Sat, 9/27/2025 1:16 PM, Jim wrote:   
      
   >>   
   >> When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't recognize   
   it.   
   >   
   > Use a reasonably modern motherboard (less than ten years old).   
   >   
      
   I am referring to using a desktop computer system SATA port.   
      
   And connecting the 8TB 4Kn Hitachi to the SATA port. That's how you will   
   detect it.   
   It's almost certain to not work on a USB to SATA adapter. I've got   
   nothing here in the USB category that can do that for a 4Kn. I bet   
   they exist, but you'll have to Google to find one. You don't   
   get that capability in all the USB to SATA adapters, just a few.   
      
   A USB device, it uses things like an 8 bit processor and a firmware,   
   and that firmware carries out analysis of the info coming back from   
   the drive. If there are anomalies showing there (4Kn when it was only   
   expecting 512n or 512e), then the firmware won't know what to do.   
      
   Even the UEFI BIOS on a desktop system motherboard is easily confused. I   
   own a single Seagate 4TB drive (512e), that if you install an OS on it,   
   it causes the UEFI motherboard BIOS to hang at POST. According   
   to a thread I could find, there is a particular kind of query for   
   the drive, that is fails to answer. It's the kind of thing,   
   that Seagate should have issued a new firmware for the hard   
   drive, so that it would be ATA compliant. But as near as I   
   can tell, that is a first gen model of that particular   
   drive design, and some later models in the same series got   
   firmware fixes for something else. Just my luck. If I make   
   the drive GPT and just put a data partition on it, then it   
   does not hang the UEFI BIOS, but a data-only drive is a bore.   
      
      Paul   
      
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