[ale] Large File-System Support w/2.4.9 using megaraid driver

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Mon May 5 12:51:29 EDT 2003


Jonathan,

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:13, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> I have a Dell Perc3 card connected to a Powervault 220s drive array
> housing 14 146GB drives.  I'm trying to create a 1.5 TB partition, but am
> having difficulty.  Any partition over 4 drives (440GB), and the megaraid
> driver starts reporting the container size as negative numbers.  I have 5
> omore 146 GB drives on an embedded Dell RAID card for a total of 540GB +
> as a single container, and it works fine.  This has me thinking it is some
> kind of megaraid driver issue rather than a kernel or hardware issue.
> Anyone seen this type of behavior before?  Any ideas who I should bug
> about this possible software bug?  I cannot tell who is maintaining the
> driver code from the megaraid.c or ChangeLog.megaraid files.  I have a
> call in with Dell support.

	What kernel/libc are you using?  What FS?

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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