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Subject: Re: max. partition size on 5.x
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Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> writes:
> After the RAID-cabinet has initialized the disks and I
> issue the camcontrol rescan all the output is
>
> da2 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da2: <SB-3140  0001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
>
> da2: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 31,
> 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da2: 764496MB (1565687808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T
> 97459C)
>
> So it's allready at this stage that the (lower) size
> is showing up. da1 has 267,348 cylinders and da2 only
> has 97,459.

this is most likely a bug in your IDE-to-SCSI enclosure's firmware.
you should check with the vendor that it actually supports 250 GB
disks.

DES
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