2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

Charles Sprickman spork at bway.net
Fri Jan 12 06:01:09 UTC 2007


On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:

>>>> Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks.  Yes, on big  fiber 
>>>> channel disk cabinets.  No to 6-8 drive raid controllers.
>>> 
>>> I'd be very surprised if you can't.  You can certainly do it with Areca 
>>> (arcmsr(4)), HP (ciss(4)), IBM ServeRAID (ips(4)), although the details 
>>> vary.
>
> On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> I can confirm 3Ware controllers also work that way.
>
> Please enlighten me.  I see no such options in the BIOS menu.

I've done it in 3DM2, but look at pages 23+24 (printed page numbers) here 
and the stuff regarding setting up a seperate boot volume:

http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/3ware9590SEUsrGuide.pdf

Charles

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