Hello,
Will opensuse 11.x 64 bit recognise a seagate barracuda XT SATA 6Gb/s 2TB Hard Drive ? [1]
It would be formatted with 1 partition to hold data.
Thanks Glenn

[1]http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/barracuda_xt/#tTabContentSpecifications

It should...

If you are attaching the HDD to a motherboard with a suitable, supported controller, linux shouldn't have any problem. Your controller will probably not support the 6GB/s rate that the HDD is capable of according to its specifications.

However...

Some new HDD of 2TB use the GUID(GPT) partition table and lacking a MBR cannot be guaranteed to boot with GRUB 0.97 as used by openSUSE. During the installation of openSUSE 11.3, the installation partitioner should format the HDD with both a readable MBR and GPT notation(hybrid MBR), allowing boot.

If this is not the case, or if installing earlier variants of SUSE 11.x, GParted has support for formating a GPT HDD and there is a command line tool, GDisk. In addition, there is a patch for Grub 0.97 to boot a GPT HDD. All of the latest kernel versions should support GPT formatted HDD.

See this excellent explanation from the SystemRescueCD website.

http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-P...PT-disk-layout

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/