From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 05:01:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3911116A40F for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:01:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (kininvie.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2142013C465 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:01:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from [10.66.240.106] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0C51KaB088125; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) In-Reply-To: <20070112032028.GC46272@dan.emsphone.com> References: <45A5FD8A.6080409@svcolo.com> <2918081F-D376-410B-B6FD-42BDD3323575@svcolo.com> <20070111213444.GB17185@zone3000.net> <20070112005510.2e145462.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <669E8D5D-E286-42DC-800F-24D7DDB2469F@svcolo.com> <20070112032028.GC46272@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jo Rhett Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:01:13 -0800 To: Dan Nelson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Spam-Score: undef - SENDER Whitelisted (jrhett@svcolo.com: Mail from user authenticated via SMTP AUTH allowed always) X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: 43640 - 00bf9f186b0e X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 64.13.135.12 Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:01:26 -0000 On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > I've got ancient AMI Megaraid controllers (Dell PERC 2/Si cards) that > can put multiple logical drives on one RAID set, so I'm surprised that > a modern controller can't. Funny, that. I miss the old Megaraid controllers. They had features that the very best of modern raid are all lacking. Like 3ware, which apparently doesn't protect the partition information. My ancient DPT and Megaraid controllers all did that. Sad how far backwards the technology has gone. -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation