CentOS - Jun 2016 - OT: hardware, MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon)

I've been googling, and haven't yet found the answer: does anyone here
know if a MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon) (rev 03) can handle drives bigger
than 2TB?

         mark

On Thu, June 30, 2016 2:59 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us
wrote:
> I've been googling, and haven't yet found the answer: does anyone
here
> know if a MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon) (rev 03) can handle drives bigger
> than 2TB?
>
One way to find out is to plug 4TB drive and take a look. Another is to
ask one who has the same controller to do the same for you. I am going to
play with similar on one of my machine, but it sounds like my controller
is different: in my case lspci gives me:


01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078
(rev 04
)
        Subsystem: Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller

Sorry, can't answer the question, only what I would do - just my poor
experientalist's approach...

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> On Thu, June 30, 2016 2:59 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> I've been googling, and haven't yet found the answer: does
anyone here
>> know if a MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon) (rev 03) can handle drives bigger
>> than 2TB?
>
> One way to find out is to plug 4TB drive and take a look. Another is to
> ask one who has the same controller to do the same for you. I am going to
> play with similar on one of my machine, but it sounds like my controller
> is different: in my case lspci gives me:
<snip>
Yeah, I know. Thanks - unfortunately, their hot-swap drive bays are full.
However, after I posted it, it finally percolated through my brain that
they were still under warranty (5 yrs is what we buy), so I just called
Dell, and am told they'll do 4TBs. Now, that, I assume, means they'll
take
larger, but he's researching it for me to be sure.

     mark

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at
kicp.uchicago.edu>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, June 30, 2016 2:59 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> > I've been googling, and haven't yet found the answer: does
anyone here
> > know if a MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon) (rev 03) can handle drives bigger
> > than 2TB?
> >
>
The following sources say, yes >2TB drives are supported with the latest
firmware [0].
Might not be able to get past 3TB drives though [1].

[0]
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/ibm-serveraid-m1015-lsi-megaraid-9220-8i-maximum-hdd-size.2648/#post-23454
[1]
https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg121130#msg121130

>
> One way to find out is to plug 4TB drive and take a look. Another is to
> ask one who has the same controller to do the same for you. I am going to
> play with similar on one of my machine, but it sounds like my controller
> is different: in my case lspci gives me:
>
>
> 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078
> (rev 04
> )
>         Subsystem: Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller
>
Those PERC controllers are limited at supporting 2TB disks.

>
> Sorry, can't answer the question, only what I would do - just my poor
> experientalist's approach...
>
> Valeri
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Valeri Galtsev
> Sr System Administrator
> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
> Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
> University of Chicago
> Phone: 773-702-4247
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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