Rob Lines wrote: > > > This would appear to be your problem. Unless you have strong > reasons to > use 2K sectors, I'd change them to the much more standard 512. > > After that, parted should have no issues whatsoever. > > > In looking back through the configuration. The 2kb sectors were set > in the Array in the Variable Sector Size as that was what it suggested > for the larger than 2tb slices. The other option on the array was > using 16 byte CDB(Command Descriptor Block) but that options is not > compatible with the LSO cards according the manufacturer. > > I would guess that scaling it back to the 1kb per track would not > really help either. > > As an aside for the LVM option is there anything to be aware of using > it on such a large drive? with LVM, you could join several smaller logical drives, maybe 1TB each, into a single volume set, which could then contain various file systems.