On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Philip Warner <pjw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sandy Drobic wrote: >> If you really intend to use an external drive larger than 1 TB you >> should definitely plan to use at least gigabit ethernet or eSATA. >> Anything else doesn't make much sense with storage of that size. > Yeah; that was the original plan until I failed to find an eSATA card > that would cope with a 4TB external disk. The last one I bought was > supposed to be 48bit LBA throughout, but the disk still shows up as the > wrong size in the cards internal bios (1.8TB). Using USB frightens me > considerably since I have (historically) had a great deal of trouble > getting large external USB drived to function reliably under linux. And, > as you say, they are slooow. > > If I go eSATA, it omes back to the hardware question: anyone know of a > hardware/software combo that thy know can cope with a single 4TB eSATA > drive? > > Also, maybe this is no longer a SuSE uestion. Agreed, not a suse question. If you are now thinking eSata, you should ask on the linux kernel sata list. <linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> You don't have to subscribe, just post your question. Typically people do a reply all on the kernel lists and they allow anyone to post. (They have really good spam filters on them.) Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
