kernel recognizing large (> 2.1 TB) block devices ?

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Thu Jan 13 19:49:12 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:08, Randall A. Jones wrote:
> This SCSI card is an Adaptec 39160.
> The RAID is a Nexsan ATABoy2 with a SCSI interface.
> It seems that the driver recognizes the need and is trying to use the 
> READ(16) command but that it is failing.
> from log:
> 
> sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.

Can you configure smaller logical partitions on the device and combine
them with LVM? 

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  Les Mikesell
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