Thanks for the tip. I'll keep an eye out for a deal on those. Right now the cheapest one I could find on eBay is $96, from South Korea.
In the meantime, I'm using the SATA 2 ports on the motherboard which has 4 ports and I only have 3 SATA drives right now. Not 6 Gbps, but it'll do for now.
Kevin
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.netwrote:
One other thing… the IBM M1015 ServeRAID card can often be had cheaply, and although it is a RAID card, you can apparently flash the generic IT-mode LSI firmware onto it, turning it into a regular HBA.****
See http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-75-dollars/ for details.****
-Adam Thompson****
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*From:* roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] *On Behalf Of *Kevin McGregor
*Sent:* Sunday, January 20, 2013 1:20 PM *To:* Adam Thompson; Continuation of Round Table discussion *Subject:* Re: [RndTbl] Linux 4K drive formatting****
Well, I upgraded to 12.04 and of course there's no change since the LSI SAS1068E controller doesn't support drives larger than 2 TB. Sigh.****
Can anyone recommend a 2- or 4-port PCIe non-RAID controller that works under Linux, supports large drives and is affordable?****
Kevin****
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Kevin McGregor < kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:****
In dmesg, it shows****
[ 11.317498] scsi 6:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68A 0A80 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5****
[ 11.319897] sd 6:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0****
[ 11.323370] sd 6:0:1:0: [sdc] 4294967294 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/1.99 TiB)****
[ 11.325746] scsi 6:0:2:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68A 0A80 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5****
[ 11.328162] sd 6:0:2:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0****
[ 11.330410] sd 6:0:2:0: [sdd] 4294967294 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/1.99 TiB)****
In /proc/partitions:****
8 32 2147483647 sdc****
8 48 2147483647 sdd****
Using parted:****
$ sudo parted /dev/sdc****
GNU Parted 2.2****
Using /dev/sdc****
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.****
(parted) print****
Error: /dev/sdc: unrecognised disk label****
(parted) mklabel gpt****
(parted) print****
Model: ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68A (scsi)****
Disk /dev/sdc: 2199GB****
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B****
Partition Table: gpt****
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags****
It looks like the kernel is not recognizing the size correctly.****
So... Upgrade to Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS?****
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net wrote:****
Oh… and if it’s not just an fdisk problem, you can contact WD support directly for RED drives only: http://support.wdc.com/contact/contact.asp?lang=en&ct=wdred ****
-Adam Thompson****
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(204) 291-7950 - direct****
(204) 489-6515 - fax****
*From:* roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] *On Behalf Of *Kevin McGregor *Sent:* Saturday, January 19, 2013 5:54 PM *To:* Continuation of Round Table discussion *Subject:* [RndTbl] Linux 4K drive formatting****
So... I picked up my lovely new WD Red 3 TB drives today and installed them in my home server.****
Now what? :-) Specifically, I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (2.6.32-45-server #102-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 2 22:53:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux), and I'm wondering if I should upgrade to Precise before I do anything with the drives, or use them as-is. I know I should align the partitions at (at least) 4 KB boundaries, and 10.04 by default uses 1 MB alignment, so I should be okay there.****
Should I worry that the drive reports****
fdisk -l /dev/sdc****
Disk /dev/sdc: 2199.0 GB, 2199023254528 bytes****
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders****
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes****
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes****
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes****
...instead of 3 TB, and thinks the sector and I/O size is 512 bytes?****
Advice, please!****
Kevin****
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