Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 19:53, Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> 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.

This sentance doesn't make sense..
They ARE able to access >2Tb so the RAID is _split_..

Why would you do that?

If they can access 2Tb disks then surely you'd just present it as one drive 
and be done with it.

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