On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:55 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:
Anyone know if our standard kernels are capable of seeing/handling devices that are >2TB in size? I know you need 48-bit LBA to do this, but clearly 48-bit LBA is supported on the machines I'm using and in our kernel.
Probably not.
The 2TB limit, as I understand it, comes from something *somewhere* being limited to a 32-bit address. Is it the kernel, or perhaps my SATA controller somehow? Or the sata_nv driver?
Nope, don't think that's it.
The setup is that I'm hooking up a hardware-raid-enclosure external cabinet up via the ESATA port to the SATA controller built into the NVidia NForce 430 chipset on the motherboard. We can't see more than 2TB.
fdisk/cfdisk limitation. See here: http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/larger_2TB.html#2TB Dale