I'm using an old motherboard from 2004, and a 4 TB SATA-connected drive that's just a few years old.
However, my BIOS seems to report the drive size as 1801.8 GB. Does this mean I can't use the drive, or will Debian bypass any BIOS limitations once it's booted?
I've googled for drive size limitations, but there doesn't seem to be a known limitation at 1,8 TB. The closest seems to be the legacy BIOS limitation at 2.2 TB.
The BIOS reports the drive as:
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Device: Hard Disk
Vendor: ST4000DX001-1CE168
Size: 1801.8GBST4000DX001-1CE168
LBA Mode: Supported
Block Mode: 16Sectors
PIO Mode: 4
Async DMA: MultiWord DMA-2
Ultra DMA: Ultra DMA-6
S.M.A.R.T.: Supported
BIOS version:
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American Megatrends BIOS v02.58
Motherboard BIOS Version: 775Twins-HDTV BIOS P2.10
Since the problem is intermittent, I suspect a hardware error, but I thought I'd rule out a compatibility problem before I scrap my motherboard.
I get error messages like this when I start the DVD installation:
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3.4147271 ahci 0000:00:1f.1: controller reset failed (0x80000001)
23.536864 ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16)
23.536864 ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16)