mpt(4) cuts 3TiB drives down to 2TiB

[Michael Reifenberger]

On Mon, 9 May 2011, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:08:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Matthew Jacob <mj at feral.com>
> To: Michael Reifenberger <mike at reifenberger.com>
> Cc: Kenneth D. Merry <ken at freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-SCSI <scsi at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: mpt(4) cuts 3TiB drives down to 2TiB
> 
>
>>> I have heard from a friend (i.e. I haven't personally confirmed) that the
>>> capacity truncation only applies to SATA drives.  If you attach a 3TB SAS
>>> drive, you should be able to see the full capacity.
>>> 
>> 
>> I can't confirm either since I have no 3TB SAS drives currently.
>
> Target mode. Try a linux box with SCST.
>

That would require one of the supported SAS cards (LSI/Marvel) to work, right?

Bye/2
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