Is there a 3tB or larger SATA drive that can be jumpered or set to show as about 2tB?
Is there a 3TB drive that can be "jumpered" or set by software to
show up as only about 2tB? I need to use my existing stand-alone utilities and computers, which only support 2TB drives, so software like what Seagate describes in: http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whit..._1_barrier.pdf "Break the 2.1TB Barrier With Barracuda XT Drives and DiscWizard Software", MB615.1-1102US, February 2011 doesn't help me. Seagate says that none of the disks: Barracuda XT ST33000651A Constellation ES.2 ST33000650NS Constellation ES.2 ST33000651NS can be set to 2TB by jumpering or by using a program to set drive configuration options. I found a manual at: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/s...100628615d.pdf "Seagate Product Manual Constellation ES.2 SAS", Rev. D, that covers the SAS version (ST33000650SS, ST33000651SS) of the Constellation drives that I am interested in, that says that it might be possible, with appropriate software, to do what I want with SAS drives by using the SAS command "Mode Select (6)" [section 4.6 "Programmable drive capacity", Page 9] Does anyone know of any hardware to make an SAS drive behave like a SATA drive? If such hardware existed and I could find software to use the appropriate Mode Select command, then I could setup a system with an SAS adapter, set the capacity of each new drive, then use it as an SATA drive with the lower capacity that I need. Thanks. |
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