From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 12:41:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B9916A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:41:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A233443D53 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:41:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [10.1.1.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j58Cf84J012927 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:41:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j58Ce5hs060399 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:40:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j58Ce4V0008855; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:40:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j58Cdrgm008851; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:39:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:39:53 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Eric Anderson Message-ID: <20050608123953.GG95969@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20050608122324.C41471@p-i-n.com> <42A6D850.2070603@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42A6D850.2070603@centtech.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.2-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on cicely12.cicely.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Raphael H. Becker" Subject: Re: Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:41:35 -0000 On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:36:48AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Raphael H. Becker wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I tried to attach our new external RAID to my RENEG_5_4 box today using > >one logical drive of about 2326GB. > > > >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. > > That is correct - only a few OS's that I know of currently support 64bit > LBA. I wanted the same thing (except I would like 18TB), and I didn't > find anyone working on this. Maybe that has changed though. Because there is nothing to do about this since years. revision 1.139 date: 2003/04/30 00:35:22; author: ken; state: Exp; lines: +194 -65 Add support to CAM for devices with more than 2^32 blocks. (2TB if you're using 512 byte blocks). -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de