The LSI BIOS handles all sizes it supports. It usually is an OS limitation if it doesn't work. I do think that the older cards support up to 1TB or something (I am talking really old cards though).
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:32:43PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > >--On 18 May 2005 15:46 +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > > > >>Does BIOS and/or hardware and/or OS limitations on disk size apply > >>when using a hw RAID card (in my case, the LSI MegaRaid 150-4). If > >>so, which ones? I assume the "root within 504M" does, but is there > >>anything else to think about? > > > > > >One other consideration is fsck memory use, FAQ14.7 "What are the issues > >regarding large drives with OpenBSD?" has a rough guideline as to how > >much is required. > > That might be a good thing to keep in mind, but AFAIK that is about > partition sizes and not the size of the entire disk. I intend to > partition the disk and probably leaving quite some space unpartitioned > for future use. > > This question was about the entire disk, as seen by the hw/BIOS/OS. I am > sorry if I was not clear enough about that. > > Alexander
