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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:05:10 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Raphael H. Becker" <rabe@p-i-n.com>
Subject:   Re: Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB
Message-ID:  <200506082105.24359.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050608122324.C41471@p-i-n.com>
References:  <20050608122324.C41471@p-i-n.com>

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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 19:53, Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> The RAID was preconfigured with two 50% partitions which were assigned
> to two LUNs. FreeBSD 5.4 was able to detect those as da1 and da2 with
> full capacity.
>
> For particular reasons I need one filesystem.
>
> The support for this RAID told me just SuSE Linux and W2k3/64Bit Systems
> are able to access devices >2TB (64bit LBA) therefore the larger RAIDs
> are preconfigured with smaller partitions.

This sentance doesn't make sense..
They ARE able to access >2Tb so the RAID is _split_..

Why would you do that?

If they can access 2Tb disks then surely you'd just present it as one drive=
=20
and be done with it.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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