Re: 18.2GB Hard Drive

Carroll, Kevin wrote: > > Is there any way to utilize an 18.2GB hard drive? This is how I understand > the situation. Max dbspace is 2gb, max chunk + offset is 2gb, so partitions > on drive can only be utilized up to 2gb. There are only 7 partitions > available (8th is forced for backup tag). At 2gb per partition, max > utilization per drive is 14gb. This is absurd. Am I to understand that > Informix cannot handle larger drives? Please help. Actually Informix does not care how big or small your drives are. The problem is that your OS cannot handle that large a drive and can only create seven partitions. Get a third party volume manager, like Veritas that can handle partitioning larger drives. We use Veritas on Sun and Clariion on DG creating 20-30 drives stripe sets from 9GB drives essentially producing a 180-240GB virtual drive that needs to be partitioned down to 90-120 2GB logical devices that Informix knows how to deal with. Art S. Kagel