On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:43:12PM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:36:48AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > Raphael H. Becker wrote: > > > >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). > > So, what will i have to do to get lets say 1kb blocks? Use a drive that has 1kb blocks. I use 1k/sector mo-media since years. Sometimes HDDs can be reformated to 1k or even 2k blocks, but you likely won't win anything by doing this with modern drives. Why do you want to do this? -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd_at_bwct.de info_at_bwct.deReceived on Wed Jun 08 2005 - 11:53:23 UTC
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