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Hey, anyone using an LSI MegaRAID experienced "disappearing drives"...? We installed 6 new C6 servers, each with a Supermicro SMC2108 (LSI MegaRAID) controllers and 3 PX-128M5Pro SSDs ( RAID1 + hostswap). 2 weeks (and almost no activity on it, since not in production, apart from installation) later, megacli sees (based on the slot numbers): - on one server: only the 2nd disk of the RAID + the ex-hotswap brought online. NO sign of...

...er. So we need partitions, and msdos tables don't support >2TB and the only other in practical use that I know of is gpt, and thse aparently can't expand online! Here's where I'm at now in case you're curious [root at host lib]# parted /dev/sdc unit s print free Model: SMC SMC2108 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 8189439999s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 34s 8189439966s 8189439933s primary Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. [r...