On 8/23/05, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 at 10:38am, Sean Staats wrote > > > It appears to me that the 3Ware card is reporting the information > > correctly, but fdisk is having the trouble. Is this due to running > > 32-bit software? Do you think running on 64-bit hardware and 64-bit > > CentOS will fix this problem? > > No. fdisk can't handle disks bigger than 2TiB. You have to use parted. > In addition, you can't use msdos (the default) disk labels on disks bigger > than 2TiB -- you must use gpt disk labels. This means that can't boot > from a >2TiB disk, as neither grub nor lilo understand gpt disk labels. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University Again - http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=11920 --