Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB

Raphael H. Becker rabe at p-i-n.com
Wed Jun 8 14:15:56 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:52:30PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:43:12PM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:

> > > 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?
> 
> Use a drive that has 1kb blocks.
> I use 1k/sector mo-media since years.
> Sometimes HDDs can be reformated to 1k or even 2k blocks, but you
> likely won't win anything by doing this with modern drives.
> Why do you want to do this?

Please tell me, if I got wrong here. For me 

"Add support to CAM for devices with more than 2^32 blocks.  
 (2TB if you're using 512 byte blocks)." 

sounds like 

"if you use double sized blocks you will have double-sized limit with
the same number of blocks."

And 1kb would extend the 2TB limit to 4TB, what would work for me here.

Regards
Raphael Becker


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