Re: problem with a device >2TB

[christian gattermair <christian.gattermair@mci.edu>]

problem solved, with parted

thx for help :-)

christian

Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 09:52 schrieb christian gattermair:
> hi!
>
> i use debian sarge with 2.6.8-2-686-smp and like to use an raid device
> (sda) with 3 TB.
>
> i have read in the internet and found that there is an kernel feature
> called LBD. it is activated
>
> but with cfdisk:
>
> cfdisk /dev/sda
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size
>
> with fdisk:
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
> You must set cylinders.
> You can do this from the extra functions menu.
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
>
> fdisk in expert mode i can max. set cylinders to 1048576 and this are only
> 2TB ....
>
> in syslog i can see following output:
>
> kernel: sda : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> kernel: SCSI device sda: 6445080576 512-byte hdwr sectors (3299881 MB)
> kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back, no read (daft)
> kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p
>
> thx 4 any hint or tip
>
> thanks,
>
> christian