From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 18:57:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CFE16A402 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:57:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@altpeter.de) Received: from canismajor.corpex-net.de (canismajor.corpex-net.de [62.67.202.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3766013C448 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:57:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@altpeter.de) Received: from pegasus.corpex.de ([194.6.192.248]) by canismajor.corpex-net.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HgmOp-000BNj-2b; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:39:31 +0200 Received: by pegasus.corpex.de (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:39:29 +0200 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:39:29 +0200 From: Frank Altpeter To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070425183929.GC1872@corpex.de> Mail-Followup-To: Frank Altpeter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Subject: strange effect building large storage server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:57:34 -0000 [Please CC me in replies, since i'm not subscribed to the list...] Hi there, I was just hitting a quite strange problem with installing FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE on an x86 platform... The machine itself provides a SATA raid controller, which is equipped with 12x500G disks, making a total of about 5 TB space. So, because of the 2GB restriction of freebsd, i decided to create 4 partitions: da0s1 with 60G for the system, and da0s2 - da0s4 with ($rest / 3). Then, creating two partitions on da0s2 - da0s4 with each ($rest / 6) in size, making the system partitions and 6 x 816G partitions. After installation and startup, i see strange things happen, since /dev/da0s2d /dev/da0s2e /dev/da0s3e are working, but /dev/da0s3d /dev/da0s4d /dev/da0s4e give me errors: mount: /dev/da0s3d: Input/output error mount: /dev/da0s4d: No such file or directory mount: /dev/da0s4e: No such file or directory The partition table looks ok to me: ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=668656 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=668656 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 125821017 (61436 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 125821080, size 3537882495 (1727481 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 3663703575, size 3537882495 (1727481 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 165/ sector 59 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 2906618774, size 3537882495 (1727481 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 76/ sector 55 while the disklabel output looks a litte bit strange: # /dev/da0s2: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 3537882495 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 1767899136 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 e: 1769983359 1767899136 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # /dev/da0s3: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 3537882495 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 1767899136 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 e: 1769983359 1767899136 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 disklabel: /dev/da0s4: no valid label found Does anyone have a hint what problem i'm hitting here? Any input is greatly appreciated... Tìoraidh an-dràsda, Frank Altpeter -- *** FA-RIPE *** http://blog.foxalpha.de/ *** SIG at 11 *** Join the Open Business Club: http://www.openbc.com/go/invite/27666.e9249b Please use text based multi-IM messaging with http://www.centerim.org/ || If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. ||