FOA Daz or sysadmin/storage type

[Chuckles]

Has anyone got any experience of IBM bladecentre S with HS21's?

I can't for the life of me get windows installed without BSOD on an array unless cut it to less than 2TB. There's no documentation saying there is a 2TB limit and I've used the latest firmware/drives on the SAS controllers/BIOS/chassis/MM - everything!

[Del Lardo]

No experience but does the 2TB limit come from Windows rather than the hardware? What version of Windows are you trying to install?

[Chuckles]

2003 enterprise SP2 x86. Disks over 2TB should be supported by GPT at this level. Even if they weren't they shouldn't just BSOD!

[Mark]

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/LUN_SP1.mspx

32-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows XP 64-bit Edition (x64) cannot boot from GPT disks.
Relevant? :)

[Chuckles]

Arse!

Thanks though. Shame I'll up to chop up the storage now but at least I'm not gonna waste anymore time on it.

[Daz]

Aye, gonna say, you need to keep the system and boot partitions off GPT :)

[Chuckles]

On the plus side those 15K SAS in RAID10 are a bit nippy :p

You can copy a file anything <500mb and it goes so quick the progress bar doesn't even flash up :p