Gary Hennigan writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning."): >There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with a 70G >partition. Linux limit for a partition size is somewhere in the TB >range. I bet it'll make for some LONG fsck times though! > >You might read the Large Disk HOWTO to see if it gives you any >ideas. It's mostly for IDE, but there is at least a section >SCSI. Perhaps you can feed the kernel a geometry of your own choosing >via the lilo "append" option with something like: > >append="sda=8924,255,63" > >Don't rely on my math above either....
This didn't really do anything, but feeding c=8924,h=255,s=63 to fdisk seems to have done the trick. It formatted cleanly, mounted cleanly, and now I'm copying data to it. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for the help. -- Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta