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Hi,

a question before starting to change the lacie d2 network 2 Harddisk.

How big may the new harddisk be?

will a 4TB Disk still be recognised by the hardware?

Thanks in advance

matze

Hi

Still we do not have the information :

we don't know if a d2n2 can support a gpt partition table type. According with some WEB sites, the original LACIE boot loader (uboot) for d2n2 can not support a GPT partition table (but LACIE uses several uboot versions for a same platform)

However Lacie provided a d2nv2 3TB (9000269) where this support is required but nothing allows to claim the other versions for 1TB / 2TB (301504 / 301506) use the same uboot version...

In the dmesg output of d2nw2 I saw this line

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Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda7 ro reset=0 productType=PRO_KW cap=gpt,lba64

The cap=gpt,lba64 indicates it supports gpt partitions so disks larger then 2 TB. So most likely your D2nw2 will be able to use a 3TB disk. But to be sure, connect with ssh client and give this command

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dmesg | grep gpt

and see if your kernel command line contains the cap=gpt,lba64 string