Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

Richard Kaszeta <kaszeta@me.umn.edu> writes:
> Gary Hennigan writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning."):
> >There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with a 70G
> >partition. Linux limit for a partition size is somewhere in the TB
> >range. I bet it'll make for some LONG fsck times though!
> >
> >You might read the Large Disk HOWTO to see if it gives you any
> >ideas. It's mostly for IDE, but there is at least a section
> >SCSI. Perhaps you can feed the kernel a geometry of your own choosing
> >via the lilo "append" option with something like:
> >
> >append="sda=8924,255,63"
> >
> >Don't rely on my math above either....
> 
> This didn't really do anything, but feeding c=8924,h=255,s=63 to fdisk
> seems to have done the trick.  It formatted cleanly, mounted cleanly,
> and now I'm copying data to it.  We'll see how it goes.

It's probably an issue of SCSI vs IDE. For SCSI you may need to send
an option similiar to the above to the SCSI driver instead of directly
to the kernel. Something like:

append="aic7xxx=<blah,blah,blah>"

You'd need to read the documentation for your SCSI driver. But, if
you've got just fdisk working then it's not an issue.

Gary