Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB

[Raphael H. Becker]

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?


Raphael Becker