Bug 73508 - fdisk can not handle terabyte raidbox
Summary: fdisk can not handle terabyte raidbox
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-05 15:55 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2008-08-01 16:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:39:54 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-09-05 15:55:21 UTC 
Description of Problem:install fails at disk partitioning when setting up large
disk raid subsystem. Unit is a Promise SX8000 with 8 160GB disk in a raid 5
config. Unit reports about 1069Gb.  Seems to be a cylinder or total block size
limitation as total blocks are reported in as negative number.


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How Reproducible:Happens in 7.3 also.  Recreated the Raid with only 7 disks and
all is fine.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup raid on running 6.2 system and same limitation.
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Comment 1 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:54 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
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