Topic: Terrabyte SATA

[bloodshoteye]

Hi all

I've searched the forum and documentation for comments on terrabyte sata.
I would like to know if SME 7.3 handles terrabyte drives without fuss - I would imagine so.
Before outlaying any cash, I am interested in any comments from the list - if I have miseed a thread in this respect, please point me there.

Thanks,

[SoftDux]

I can't see why not. This could rather be a problem with the BIOS on your mobo, so confirm that your mobo can support Terrabyte drives before you put them in

[bloodshoteye]

It's a fairly new server, so should be OK. I'll see what the mobo manual has to say, like you suggest.

Thanks,

[SoftDux]

chances are that the mobo wil support it then

[raem]

SoftDux

Linux is not generally subject to BIOS limitations regarding drive size.
Linux reads the drives directly.

[SoftDux]

I had an interesting case a few years ago with SCSI. It was on an old Pentium Pro Socket 8, and I wanted to use a PCI SCSI card, but the BIOS didn't recognise it. Someone told me to just boot up with FreeBSD (my OS of choice for that server), and it shoud pick it up. Needless to say, it did. I had to put a small IDE drive in to put the bootloader on though, but even though the motherboard didn't recognise the SCSI card, UNIX did

[Reinhold]

Redhat on RHEL 4:
· The Anaconda installer currently only supports GPT partition tables on the Itanium™ architecture. As a result, it is not possible to install or format devices that are larger that 2 TB with Anaconda, except on Itanium™ platforms.

Also there used to be a Anaconda patch needed to go beyond 1TB partitions !?!

...anything changed that I'm not aware of ???

Regards
Reinhold

P.S.: 3ware used to have a limit of 2 TB.

TB = Terabyte 

[Jontu Kontar]

I have two 1TB Toshiba SATA drives in a Dell SC1430 (usable space is 917GB) and have not had any issues with the readability of the drives themselves.  This was on a "fresh" install of SME Server 7.3.

FYI:  (There was an issue with getting them into a RAID 1 array but that is another story.)