[RndTbl] Linux 4K drive formatting

[Kevin McGregor]

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 at athompso.net>wrote:

> 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****
>
> athompso at athompso.net****
>
> (204) 291-7950 - direct****
>
> (204) 489-6515 - fax****
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>
> *From:* roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:
> roundtable-bounces at 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 at 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 at 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****
>
> athompso at athompso.net****
>
> (204) 291-7950 - direct****
>
> (204) 489-6515 - fax****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:
> roundtable-bounces at 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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