Updating your B3 to support 3TB disks
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In order to use 3TB hard drives inside your Excito B3, you need to update the bootloader. (Note that 3TB drives work as external drives already)
It's fairly simple - follow this guide and you should be fine:
- Download http://install.excito.org/b3/uboot/uboot_3TB.zip
- Unzip it onto a clean usb memory. NOTE: The USB stick has to be empty!
- Shut down your B3 and remove power
- Insert the USB stick into your B3
- Press and hold the rear button, while inserting the power cord
- The front LED should be green. Release the button.
- Wait for 2 minutes
- Done! Remove power and remove the USB.
..now you can install on and boot from any 3TB hard drive in B3.
For the interested: Above 2TB, disk manufacturers have had to change something they call "block size", from 512 Bytes to 4 kBytes, this is what caused this incompatibility. Read more about sector/block sizes here.
From 2011-06-30, all B3 units produces already has this fix applied. However, we cannot guarantee that all units purchased after that have this applied, since intermediate stock is present on a few locations.