Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller14 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1down to 120 GB. For more information, see the discussion of drive coercionunder “Creating a Hot Spare” on page 113.Support for Over 2 TerabytesWindows 2000, Windows XP (32-bit), Windows 2003 (32-bit and 64-bitwithout SP1) and Linux 2.4 and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unitcapacity in excess of 2 TB.If the combined capacity of the drives to be connected to a unit exceeds 2Terabytes (TB), you can enable auto-carving when you configure your units.Auto-carving divides the available unit capacity into multiple chunks of 2 TBor smaller that can be addressed by the operating systems as separatevolumes. The carve size is adjustable from 1024 GB to 2048 GB (default)prior to unit creation.If a unit over 2 TB was created prior to enabling the auto-carve option, itscapacity visible to the operating system will still be 2TB; no additionalcapacity will be registered. To change this, the unit has to be recreated.For more information, see “Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support” onpage 92.You may also want to refer to Knowledgease article # 13431, athttp://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=13431.Note: All drives in a unit must be of the same type, either SAS or SATA.
