Alex Daniloff wrote:
I've just installed a couple of WDE9150 Western Digital SCSI hard drives to build RAID5. To my suprise, each of these drives shows 2048GB of its capacity instead of real 9.1GB. Just for the sake of sanity I tried to install SuSE8.2 Linux on one of these drives. Installation failed with warnings related to some IO problems. Could somebody tell me please if I have to perform low level formatting of these SCSI drives before building RAID5, or these drives just defective and I'll have exchange them and bit crap out of vendor. Thank you very much in advance for any help or source of information.
I want such drives, too. 2 TB wow ;-) Hmm, it seems that your scsi-bus has problems. If all drives have such size, check termination, cable-length... Maybe bios-settings. Most controllers have a scsi-bios with possibillitie to configure some bus-parameters. -- Andreas