2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

[Charles Sprickman]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> 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
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> Those are CLI functions.  Which means you have to boot to run the CLI, so 
> cart->horse.

The pages I mention are for the 3Ware BIOS, not tw_cli or 3DM2...  I'm 
looking at the pdf and the screenshots are clearly from the 3Ware BIOS. 
Check it out...

Charles

> Sorry for being terse, but I have to solve the boot problem which is what 
> started this conversation.
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> For data arrays not part of boot, I could simply use GPT and be done with it. 
> I only need small volumes to solve the boot problem.
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> Jo Rhett
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