Attaching 3 MD1000 to PE2950 PERC 6/E

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

Windows should support it.

You would need to use NTFS to support this. Linux does not support this
natively, but I'm guessing that you're going to use some sort of file
sharing to do this?

                If so you can use SMB (Samba/CIFS on linux) to do this,
or you could install the Windows services for Unix and use NFS.

                You could also use the Window iSCSI target software,
however this operates on Virtual Hard Drive files so you would have to
create one...

You can have 3 MD1000's daisy chained per connector on the PERC 6/E, so
a max of 6 per controller.

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of David Reta
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 1:15 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Attaching 3 MD1000 to PE2950 PERC 6/E

 

Hello,

 

I would like to attach 3 MD1000's (15 X 1TB Drives per MD1000) to a
PE2950 with a PERC 6/E running Windows 2003 Enterprise R2. I would like
to have one partition. I would also like to mount this on linux systems
for use. I am not much of a Windows user so I have some basic questions?

 

Does anyone see any issues with Windows supporting this?

What windows filesystem has the greatest max size and what is the max
size? Is this fs supported on linux?

How many MD1000's can I daisy chain to the PERC 6/E?

 

Regards,

David Reta

 

Systems Engineer

Narus Inc.

650-230-9338

650-444-4170 (C)

 

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