[CentOS] OT: hardware, MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon)

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Tue, July 5, 2016 11:05 am, Mike - st257 wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Valeri Galtsev
> <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, June 30, 2016 2:59 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> > I've been googling, and haven't yet found the answer: does anyone here
>> > know if a MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon) (rev 03) can handle drives bigger
>> > than 2TB?
>> >
>>
>
> The following sources say, yes >2TB drives are supported with the latest
> firmware [0].
> Might not be able to get past 3TB drives though [1].
>
> [0]
> https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/ibm-serveraid-m1015-lsi-megaraid-9220-8i-maximum-hdd-size.2648/#post-23454
> [1]
> https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg121130#msg121130
>
>
>>
>> One way to find out is to plug 4TB drive and take a look. Another is to
>> ask one who has the same controller to do the same for you. I am going
>> to
>> play with similar on one of my machine, but it sounds like my controller
>> is different: in my case lspci gives me:
>>
>>
>> 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078
>> (rev 04
>> )
>>         Subsystem: Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller
>>
>
> Those PERC controllers are limited at supporting 2TB disks.
>

Thanks, Mike. Hadn't chance to do it, so I'm still to discover that. That
said, I've heard someone mentioned he/she just flashed these with LSI
firmware making then not tweaked by Dell PERC ones and got what one gets
on LSI controllers... I hope, OP has got his answer (from Dell Support, I
believe).

Valeri

>
>>
>> Sorry, can't answer the question, only what I would do - just my poor
>> experientalist's approach...
>>
>> Valeri
>>
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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