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

[Jonathan Glass]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:51, Danny Cox wrote:
> 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?

Redhat Advanced Server 2.1, pre-loaded by Dell.
Kernel: 2.4.9-e.3smp 
libc:  	glibc-2.2.4-26

I'm planning on using ext3, but I cannot get to that point.  The system
won't recognize (on the megaraid controller) a container over 440 GB (4
x 146 GB drives).  Anything bigger than that and the size reports a
negative number, and fdisk cannot see the drive/container.

Thanks
-- 
Jonathan Glass <jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu>

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