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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Perhaps you need a BIOS upgrade? HP recommends only using downloads from their site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cinlug [mailto:cinlug-bounces@lists.cinlug.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Matthew Lawson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 04, 2017 7:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> cinlug@lists.cinlug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: HP Z800 w/ 2.2TB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First, thank you to the members who responded so quickly. Second, apologies for not mentioning in the original email that I had already tried initializing the disk with gParted (and parted for good measure!). When I tried to set it
to 3TB, though, parted griped at me. I'll pass along the error message to anyone who asks after I recreate it tonight.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, I used parted on the Z800, so tonight I'll use a different machine that has recognized the full size of the disk in the past. I guess doing so might make a difference.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">~ML<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I bought a HP Z800 for home use, including NAS, VM's, sandbox, etc. To my chagrin, I have discovered that it will only recognize a max HDD size of 2.2TB. I've gathered that it is used by too-old firmware. However, a member of the HP forum
board successfully installed a 3TB drive under Windows, so it seems technically feasible. He recommended updating the Intel controller driver, but HP does not offer a controller driver for Linux derivatives. I'm loathe to make unnecessary changes because I
don't want to make anything worse. <br>
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Sooooo...does anyone know how to overcome the 2.2TB threshold? <br>
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FWIW, HP sold this workstation as RHEL-ready, so it is compatible with Linux. <br>
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This is virgin territory for me, so please use monosyllabic words and type slowly.
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System Specs: Z800, dual-Xeons, 24GB ram, Ubuntu 16.04 from a USB drive (persistent) and one 3TB WD Red
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TIA, <br>
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