Re: format and LUN > 2Tb

From: Dan Foster (usenet_at_evilphb.org)
Date: 06/23/05 

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:21:01 +0000 (UTC)

In article <d9e9aj$1f9r$1@rhone.ujf-grenoble.fr>, Frederic Roussel <froussel@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr> wrote:
>
> I've got a sun v40z with a storedge 3511 and i create a logical
> device (with raid 5) which is > 2 Tb
>
> However format give me an error message for the new LUN
>
> # format
> Searching for disks...
> The capacity of this LUN is too large.
> Reconfigure this LUN so that it is < 2TB.
> done

I would suggest upgrading to at least Solaris 9 update 4 (or Solaris 10,
any version).

I think that starting with S9U4, it supports 16 TB LUNs?

-Dan

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