derekb
My biggest issue is that on all the information i have read my system is suppose to support GPT partition for external storage:
Did you actually read anything I posted ?
Did you follow all the links I posted & the links they also refer to & read what they are saying ?
The last comment says CentOS 5 (therefore sme 8 ) does not support GPT.
Your hardware/BIOS "system" may support it, but it appears the software kernel does not.
The problem is not sme server, the problem is upstream with CentOS.
You are also running an older version of the kernel so you should do
yum update
cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-348.12.1.el5 (mockbuild@builder17.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)) #1 SMP Wed Jul 10 05:31:48 EDT 2013
I also asked you earlier if you cleaned the disk before starting to partition it etc.
Refer
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467848#c10This Dell support document implies (read it all) larger than 2Tb drives using GPT are supported as secondary data drives, so your problem may be the procedure you are using to partition & format your drive.
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/w/wiki/2837.aspxAlways start with a clean (erased partition) drive.