Re: Pb between an UltraTrak SX8000 and an Adaptec 29160

Mike Dresser
2002-11-20T15:35:52Z

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Simon Burley wrote:

> > Linux 2.4.x doesnt support single volumes over 1Tb. Thats fixed in 2.5
>
> Can I ask what the symptoms of this failure to support >1Tb volumes
> would be? Failure to identify the device? Random read/write failures?
> Completely corrupted disk? It's the first time I've heard this!
>

What about the software raid /dev/md0?

I remember vaguely about the group that was doing raid5 on 75 gig IBM
Deathstars(can't remember url) having issues with terrabyte volumes, and
doing a pair of half terrabytes instead.

The article is so old and out of date though

www.nobell.org/~gjm/linux/ide-raid/

Speaking of deathstars:

www-cdf.final.gov/offline/warnings.html

Note about deathstars, and about 3ware and WD drives. =)

Mike