From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 13:53:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B24B16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:53:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9DA43D1F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:53:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [10.1.1.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j58Dr94J015212 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:53:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j58DqVhs060813 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:52:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j58DqUf5009282; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:52:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j58DqUUU009281; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:52:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:52:30 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: "Raphael H. Becker" Message-ID: <20050608135229.GK95969@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20050608122324.C41471@p-i-n.com> <42A6D850.2070603@centtech.com> <20050608123953.GG95969@cicely12.cicely.de> <20050608154312.D41471@p-i-n.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050608154312.D41471@p-i-n.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.2-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on cicely12.cicely.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Eric Anderson , ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:53:23 -0000 On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:43:12PM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:36:48AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > Raphael H. Becker wrote: > > > >The support for this RAID told me just SuSE Linux and W2k3/64Bit Systems > > > >are able to access devices >2TB (64bit LBA) therefore the larger RAIDs > > > >are preconfigured with smaller partitions. > > > > > > That is correct - only a few OS's that I know of currently support 64bit > > > LBA. I wanted the same thing (except I would like 18TB), and I didn't > > > find anyone working on this. Maybe that has changed though. > > > > Because there is nothing to do about this since years. > > > > revision 1.139 > > date: 2003/04/30 00:35:22; author: ken; state: Exp; lines: +194 -65 > > Add support to CAM for devices with more than 2^32 blocks. (2TB if you're > > using 512 byte blocks). > > So, what will i have to do to get lets say 1kb blocks? Use a drive that has 1kb blocks. I use 1k/sector mo-media since years. Sometimes HDDs can be reformated to 1k or even 2k blocks, but you likely won't win anything by doing this with modern drives. Why do you want to do this? -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de