[CentOS] Support for add disk SCSI

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 20:42:35 UTC 2009


Luis campo wrote:
> Thanks for your reply,
> 
> The configuration I mentioned implies that each SCSI disk array would be 
> in a new partition?

Yes, if you want raid1. Other raid levels or LVM could group them into one.

> Regarding the size of the disk because it recognizes only 273GB

Drive manufacturers like to sell drives measured in powers of 10 where 
computers like to use powers of two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Capacity_measurements

Plus there is some formatting overhead.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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