19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
2 p.m.
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
We had stumbled across this, and are using parted and the GPT partitioning to set up the drive. However, even parted does not seem to be able to see the whole drive. Hence the thought that it must be either the kernel itself or the device driver. Though I suppose it could also be something about the way parted was built. - P