RHEL and Promise Vtrak 15100 size limitation?

From: googler (obsduser_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/18/04

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    Anyone had any experience with the 15100..?

    Hardware:
    Promise Vtrak 15100 (latest firmware 1.03)(the firmware is busybox
    pre3)
    15 250GB WD Sata drives
    Gateway 935S with 4GB RAM 1.4GHZ procesor
    Adaptec 29160 SCSI card
    3-Com Gig card.

    >From my googling it looks like the size limits on both
    ext2 and ext3 are about 4 TeraBytes.

    I am trying to set up an ext3 file system on a Raid 5 with 13 250GB
    drives.

    My question..
    I set up a Raid 5 with 13 drives and 1 hot spare.
    per the CLU (Promises serial command line utility)
    the logical drive is about 3 terabytes (2975GB)

    Doing an fdisk I only end up with about 789GB ..

    I have tried several different block sizes 8 and 64 but no difference,
    the file system is still less than a Terabyte..

    The tech support folks at Promise seem to be only Windows literate..
    The don't seem to know much about Linux.. or maybe I need to get the
    next level of support..??

    any suggestions welcome..

    thx

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