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Thu, 25 May 2006 17:53:56 GMT |
I just installed a bigger disk than usual on my system, and LVM doesn't
seem to think it's all that big.
Hitachi 72GB (or 66 GB, you know, depending on the counting system) SCSI
disk. Adaptec 29160N controller; using the 68-pin bus, of course. eCS 1.0
as updated.
Did a full hard format with the controller, because the conventional
wisdom seems to recommend that. Brought up LVM on it, and it reports
4471 Megabytes
DFSEE does no better, and I haven't yet found any magic operation that
might fix it. (I have a query on dfsee support also) The hardware Verify
operation is indicating 66 GB, not 4.5.
The value looks suspiciously like the capacity modulo 32 GB, which is the
result I'd expect on a removable disk, but not SCSI. Am I missing some
drivers or something, to half-fix an ancient bug that that will never be
fixed for removables?
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Dan Drake
dd@dandrake.com
http://www.dandrake.com/
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Thu, 25 May 2006 22:04:47 GMT |
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:53:56 UTC, "Dan Drake" <dd@dandrake.com>
wrote:
> I just installed a bigger disk than usual on my system, and LVM doesn't
> seem to think it's all that big.
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Mon, 29 May 2006 09:25:09 +020 |
"Dan Drake" <dd@dandrake.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:vhIsdqY67dTD-pn2-D0Mzbc3Jdt6l@localhost...
>I just installed a bigger disk than usual on my system, and LVM doesn't
> seem to think it's all that big.
>
> Hitachi 72GB (or 66 GB, you know, depending on the counting system) SCSI
> disk. Adaptec 29160N controller; using the 68-pin bus, of course. eCS 1.0
> as updated.
>
> Did a full hard format with the controller, because the conventional
> wisdom seems to recommend that. Brought up LVM on it, and it reports
>
> 4471 Megabytes
>
> DFSEE does no better, and I haven't yet found any magic operation that
> might fix it. (I have a query on dfsee support also) The hardware Verify
> operation is indicating 66 GB, not 4.5.
>
> The value looks suspiciously like the capacity modulo 32 GB, which is the
> result I'd expect on a removable disk, but not SCSI. Am I missing some
> drivers or something, to half-fix an ancient bug that that will never be
> fixed for removables?
>
>
> --
> Dan Drake
> dd@dandrake.com
> http://www.dandrake.com/
> porlockjr.blogspot.com
Just to calm you down, I'm using such disks with Adaptec 2940U2W, eCS 1.2,
without any problems.
If you didn't use such high capacity on the scsi bus before, cabling or the
adapter
might be the problem.
Edwin
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Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:03:41 -040 |
edwin wrote:
> "Dan Drake" <dd@dandrake.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:vhIsdqY67dTD-pn2-D0Mzbc3Jdt6l@localhost...
>> I just installed a bigger disk than usual on my system, and LVM
doesn't
>> seem to think it's all that big.
>>
>> Hitachi 72GB (or 66 GB, you know, depending on the counting system)
SCSI
>> disk. Adaptec 29160N controller; using the 68-pin bus, of course. eCS
1.0
>> as updated.
>
>> Did a full hard format with the controller, because the conventional
>> wisdom seems to recommend that. Brought up LVM on it, and it reports
>>
>> 4471 Megabytes
>>
>> DFSEE does no better, and I haven't yet found any magic operation that
>> might fix it. (I have a query on dfsee support also) The hardware
Verify
>> operation is indicating 66 GB, not 4.5.
>>
>> The value looks suspiciously like the capacity modulo 32 GB, which is
the
>> result I'd expect on a removable disk, but not SCSI. Am I missing some
>> drivers or something, to half-fix an ancient bug that that will never
be
>> fixed for removables?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dan Drake
>> dd@dandrake.com
>> http://www.dandrake.com/
>> porlockjr.blogspot.com
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> Just to calm you down, I'm using such disks with Adaptec 2940U2W, eCS 1.2,
> without any problems.
> If you didn't use such high capacity on the scsi bus before, cabling or the
> adapter
> might be the problem.
>
> Edwin
>
>
How about the problem being an ancient version of ecs 1.0?? I don't
think it has the capability of dealing with drives that size. I may be
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Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:01:22 GMT |
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 06:03:41 UTC, Ira Wechsler <imwechs@optonline.net>
wrote:
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> How about the problem being an ancient version of ecs 1.0?? I don't
> think it has the capability of dealing with drives that size. I may be
> wrong, but I believe you need ecomstation 1.1 or greater.
>
Thanks; at someone's suggestion I tried the latest JFS drivers, and now
things are much better, wihtout (yet) updating the eCS level. Hoping that
some other stupid things abouit JFS support will improve when I finally
take the time to upgrade to 1.1 (or wait for 1.2 ...)
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Dan Drake
dd@dandrake.com
http://www.dandrake.com/
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