Has anyone tried to use these yet?
For hysterical raisons, my primary machine is CentOS5 32bit (up to date).
In the machine I have a SiI 3132 dual port SATA controller with port multiplier. Both ports are plugged into an external storage device which presents 4 SATA disks on each port, for a total of 8 possible disks.
Currently I have 5*1Tb in there, configured as RAID5 via mdadm
I boot off an internal SATA disk; I don't see a need to change that.
But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the whole disk? And also whether I need to be worried about 4Kbyte sectors.
These new disks are confusing me!