I know, in Windows, I couldn't use the SATA connectors on the motherboard with 3TB drives since the ICH9 wasn't compatible with disks larger than 2TB. This is also why the early versions of the WD 3TB harddrives came with a small PCI-express x1 card containing two SATA interfaces. Using this card, everything did work as it should.
Huh?
Never heard of that issue. I did buy a 2.5TB drive which included a (no extra cost) add-on SATA controller, but I assumed that was simply so that it (1) would support the full 6gbit/sec speed of the drive, and (2) had an onboard BIOS that could boot from a drive larger than the "2TB boot limit".
My MythTV box with the 3TB drives is based on ICH8.
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