Windows Server - SAN DISK Unreadable

Asked By John

07-Nov-09 02:16 PM

Hopefully someone can help.  Not sure which group to post this to.

I have created a 3 TB metaLUN and attached it to a Windows 2000 host.
The host sees the LUN, but only 2 TB worth.  The disk also shows up as
fine, I can initialaize, format, etc.  The Windows 2000 box has other
smaller LUNs attached with no problems.  I have read different things on
the NTFS maximum volume size.  Some say 2 TB, others say 16 TB,
depending on whether basic or dynamic disks are used.  I cannot get
that far though in this situation.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

06-Nov-09 05:56 PM

MBR limitation is 2TB. To access disks above 2TB, you need to use GPT disks.
Windows 2000 does not support GPT disks.

2000 is dead...time to move on.

Regards,
John

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09-Nov-09 06:47 PM

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I attached the metaLUN to a Windows 2003 box with no problem.