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From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Subject: Re: > 2TB storage
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:43:01 -0700
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On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 08:35 -0700, Carlos Pardo wrote:

> Has anyone tested libATA drivers using disks bigger than 2 Terabytes? I just attached what is
> essentially a 2.2 TB disk drive to a Silicon Image 3114 chipset.

Since you appear work for SiImage, was this a SteelVine SV-2000 box?
That ships configured as a port multiplier, not a fake RAID.  There are
no Linux drivers that can usefully talk to it, and no software available
for Linux to reconfigure it out of JBOD mode.  It's a Windows-only box.

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