Partitioning >2.2 TB drives

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Is it possible to partition and format a hard drive larger than 2.2 TB
with a USB2 adapter on a CentOS 6.4 machine with a BIOS motherboard?

I just bought a 4 TB Seagate ST4000NC000 SATA3 drive and the best I can
do with fdisk and gdisk are:

        # fdisk -l /dev/sdk
        
        Disk /dev/sdk: 1801.8 GB, 1801763774464 bytes
        255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 219051 cylinders
        Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
        Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
        I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
        Disk identifier: 0x00000000
        
and
        
        # gdisk -l /dev/sdk
        GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.4
        
        Partition table scan:
          MBR: not present
          BSD: not present
          APM: not present
          GPT: not present
        
        Creating new GPT entries.
        Disk /dev/sdk: 3519069872 sectors, 1.6 TiB
        Logical sector size: 512 bytes
        Disk identifier (GUID): 1D245AF9-778E-4684-A7D1-236E2DCB016A
        Partition table holds up to 128 entries
        First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3519069838
        Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
        Total free space is 3519069805 sectors (1.6 TiB)
        
        Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name

With gparted 0.6 the best I was able to do was create a 1.64 TB
partition and format it to ext4.

I was planning to buy 44 more of these drives for a Backblaze project.
Needless to say, this is a bit of an unexpected pothole.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL


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