What is the reason that it can not cover more than 2TB? By the way you are able to use more than 2TB, ~2.3TB??? Why? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan van Hienen" <raid@a2000.nu> To: "Donghui Wen" <dhwen@protegonetworks.com> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:51 AM Subject: Re: maximum disk capacity? > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Donghui Wen wrote: > > > Hi, I am setting up hardware raid with 7 harddrives on redhat linux. > > I use 3ware + hardware raid 5, each harddrive is 200G. For > > linux, this raid sould act as a 1.2TB scsi hard drive. But it seems > > redhat could not reconize it. I am wondering may be a 1.2TB hard drive > > is too large to linux. So my question is: what't > > the maxium disk capacity Linux can support? > > no problem till 2TB > if you need to go above to 2TB, you need the largedisk patch > which doesn't work with sw raid5 (so no 2TB+ with sw raid5) > > i'm running with 13*180GB (+1 Hotspare) in sw raid5 (hd's > connected to 2*3ware 7850) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
