On Thu, May 28, 2015 10:46 am, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > On 5/26/2015 11:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Push came to shove - these things gag on a drive > 2TB. > > I ran into this a couple of years ago with some older 3Ware cards. A > firmware update fixed it. > With 3ware cards depending on card model: 1. the card supports drives > 2TB 2. the card as initially released does not support these drives, but there is firmware update after installation of which the card will supports drives > 2TB 3. The card does not support drives > 2TB, even with latest available firmware. (there are really old cards, even though someone may say hardware doesn't live this long, I do have them in production as well, and to the credit of 3ware I must say: I've never seen one dead - excluding abuse/misuse of course). Just my $0.02 Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++