SUMMARY: Solaris-8 + VERY Large Non-Sun Hard Drives?

From: Michael S. Peek <peek_at_tiem.utk.edu>
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 09:20:47 EDT
> I am facing the same problem. Any hints on how I can make a Promise R15000
> array work with Solaris?

After several months of researching I came to this conclusion:

1) Solaris has a 1TB limitation on the size of a single partition.  This is
exactly what I wanted to avoid for the purposes I had in mind.

2) Some people have gotten around this by sectioning their drives into
multiple LUNS, although some people reported that they had to hack on their
kernel a little to be able to recognize multiple LUNS in the first place.  I
don't have any specifics on that.  I gave up following that lead when I found
that I would still be dealing with a 1TB maximum partition size.  But once you
have your array sectioned into multiple LUNS and your kernel recognizing their
existence, you should be able to use them just as you would any other set of
drives.

3) Solstice DiskSuite will not help you to overcome the 1TB limitation, at
least not under Solaris-8.  (Something like Veritas Volume Manager might...)

I gave up and decided to go with Linux, a couple of 3Ware cards (which are
supported natively in the latest stable kernel, and 3Ware has Linux tools
available for download, which gives me more support than I would have gotten
with Promise), and a case from rackmountpro.com that sports 24 removable IDE
HD bays.  That should hold me for a while...

Michael
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