Big disks

Richard Underwood <richard-9fznSi7SyK6JOZk8TUI7T1pr/1R2p/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.aacraid.devel
Message-ID <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EA8F0@post>
Hi,

	A PE 1650 has an external SCSI connector which we'd like to use to
connect to 1 2.2TB disk array (which will appear as two 1.1TB disks) on
Linux.

	The BIOS fails to accept their size. Splitting them into 3-400G
slices and them recombining them as a volume works, but I'm told the BIOS
crashed during some operations.

	Will an updated BIOS help? There's one on the Dell website, but no
release notes. Is there a performance penalty in the setup above, or would
it be a hell of a lot simpler to buy a cheap Adaptec 29160LP and forget
about using the PERC card?

	Thanks,

		Richard


Component Revisions
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                CLI: 2.7-1 (Build #4944)
                API: 2.7-1 (Build #4944)
    Miniport Driver: 2.7-1 (Build #3170)
Controller Software: 2.7-1 (Build #3170)
    Controller BIOS: 2.7-1 (Build #3170)
Controller Firmware: (Build #3170)

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