[NMLUG] big disks

[kwilson at swcp.com (Kelly Wilson)]

I'm doing some stuff at work with the new LaCie 1TB drives.  They are
actually (4) 250Gb drives spanned together in hardware.  I connect them
via Firewire 800 and I can format them to a full 940Gb on one volume.
I actually have 5 of them striped RAID5 with mdadm and have a 3.7 TB volume.
The "fun" (urgh..) part is consistent device ids and the RAID config.

Any experience on this out there?

--
Kw

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Jody Harris wrote:

> I have a 160G drive... (Maxtor?)  df -h gives me 149G.
>
> I'm surprised that you're only seeing 137G.
>
> j
>
> Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> > I just got a 250G Western Digital EIDE hard drive.
> > Problem is that fdisk only sees like 137G.
> >
> > I looked at the insert, and they provide a little Windows program
> > to prepare the disk for 250G formatting.
> >
> > What can I do from Debian?
> > How can I tell if my bios can even handle such a disk?
> >
> >      aaron
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