Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:39:53 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Raphael H. Becker" <rabe@p-i-n.com> Subject: Re: Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB Message-ID: <20050608123953.GG95969@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <42A6D850.2070603@centtech.com> References: <20050608122324.C41471@p-i-n.com> <42A6D850.2070603@centtech.com>
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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
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