Greg Freemyer wrote:
I assume you know you are pushing the envelope. Yeah...wasn't quite aware of the extent of my pushing, but I'm rapidly becoming aware.
If you really NEED to have a single 4TB external volume you have to accept that you are likely one of the first to try it, so bugs are to be expected.
Looks like it; probably explains why most 4TB externals are SAN.
The external enclosure itself. Most are limited to exporting 1TB or 2TB volumes.
Enclosure is no problem, at least.
The eSata card. I've had to upgrade all of my cards firmware just to get them to see 1TB drives. I doubt any are spec'ed to support 4TB drives yet.
Yeah; all my existing eSATA top out at 2TB; one I purchased for the purpose (assured it was 48bit throughout) also only support 48 bit to the host. Still only copes with 2TB drives.
The Sata kernel driver specific to your controller.
The generic kernel sata driver infrastructure.
This was the kind of thing that made me think I needed to talk so someone who had gone down the path and knew which hardware actually worked.
Fortunately most eSata controllers report the disk drive sizes at the bios level. Is that showing up correctly for you? (I'll be very surprised if it is.)
As above, no. And my only 64 bit machine (atm) is a laptop....happy to buy a 64 bi server, but was hoping to go into that armed with infor about which ones actually *do* work with 4TB drives. FWIW, the motivation here is to have a *portable* large drive. Putting LVM on it means I'll have difficulty reading it in an emrgency on windows (I expect). SAN or iSCSI is looking good. Wish I could get this to work with USB/FW...I have read that LaCie have drivers for linux to cope with large externals, but again, not from the horses mouth. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org