Re: Pb between an UltraTrak SX8000 and an Adaptec 29160

Alan Cox
2002-11-20T16:08:51Z

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:22, Simon Burley wrote:
> 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!

There is a fundamental 2Gb minus a bit limit (2^32 sectors). One or two
bits of the kernel (LVM1 I believe is one) use signed maths here and
there. So 1-2Gb generally works but its not something to guarantee.

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