[Cialug] Mounting big disks

[Nathan C. Smith]

I'm trying to use iSCSI (open-iscsi) to mount a 2TB volume.

It appears to be ready:

[17180180.432000] scsi4 : iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP, v.0.3
[17180180.752000]   Vendor: Promise   Model: VTrak M300i       Rev: 0202
[17180180.752000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI
revision: 04
[17180180.752000] sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[17180180.752000] SCSI device sdb: 4294969344 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199024
MB)
[17180180.752000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
[17180180.752000] sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[17180180.752000] SCSI device sdb: 4294969344 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199024
MB)
[17180180.752000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
[17180180.752000]  sdb: sdb1
[17180180.752000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
[17180180.752000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

But when I try to fdisk it has trouble detecting the size and wants me to
enter cylinder configurations.  Is this the best way to do this?  Do I have
to work backwards from the disk size to figure out what my cylinder count
is?

The first couple of big-disk howto's I found seem to be from an era when  8
GB was a big disk

Hints, directions, appreciated.  Thanks.

-Nate


Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667