> > Seagate is reportedly coming out with a 3TB update > to > > their Constellation ES drives ... > > > > Will there be any problems with this? I gather > the > > larger LBA field could cause > > problems for PC BIOS's, at least for a boot > > drive...maybe newer EFI firmware would > > be ok. > > Hmm, 6708609 "Support booting on disks > 1TB (phase > 1)" > added support for booting from disks > 1TB (the new > limit it > 2 TB). > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bu > g_id=6708609 > > > Phase 2, booting from disks > 2TB apparently is not > yet supported: > 6708612 "Support booting on disks > 1TB (phase 2, > > 2TB)" > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bu > g_id=6708612 > > > I doubt that such a drive could be used as an > (Open)Solaris boot drive...
Well, with an 8-slot JBOD, I figure I'll have: 2 drive mirror for rpool (has to be bootable) 5 drive raidZ for data 1 hot spare Right now, all I have is the rpool, and it is using 1TB drives. Those boot fine on my SB2K. I'm wondering if I'm going to run into an OpenBoot problem booting from even 2TB drives (which would be a show-stopper for an old box where firmware updates are unlikely). Even if the OS can handle those, I have no idea if OpenBoot can. It is encouraging to hear that the OS should probably handle 3TB drives (other than for booting, right now). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
