Thanks for all the info. I have enough stuff to try to keep me busy for a while... -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Nelson Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:55 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos I'm using a Dell PERC 5/i with the drives configured as simple volumes (aka no hardware RAID). I beleive the PERCs are based on an LSI MegaRAID chipset/controller... Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Milt Mallory" <milt@xxxxxxxxx> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:39:07 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: RE: Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos What SCSI controller are you using? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Nelson Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:05 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos I'll second that... we recently put a system online with over 3TB of storage. The only way to create a storage medium that large was to use a gpt disk label and use parted to do the partitioning. mkfs had no problems formatting the partition and it's been working properly for quite some time now. Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:56:47 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey Subject: Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos on 7-24-2008 3:42 PM Milt Mallory spake the following: > I have an Infortrend RAID box I'd like to see as one big 6TB partition, > but I only can get 2.2TB partitions to work. I was trying to do this > with an Adaptec controller but apparently they are only (any of them) 48 > bits wide. Does anybody have a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB? > > Did you try creating GPT partitions with parted? Fdisk won't do it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos