From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 21:55:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B2F106564A; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:55:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f209.google.com (mail-fx0-f209.google.com [209.85.220.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A2E8FC0C; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so1142275fxm.13 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:55:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZIgaZNp8MsQpENP5RGDfguJuwqiTkKQFO8O3QI1ZVOY=; b=c55OjpHID5keia16UQHX6E/XU1b6CRnFAiOjd5wiTZRmbzhnKv8sB9pRcSJurzHJF2 DUtotWkZ81rKyt+g50/M1FHbz6CF9XTsEHb2bRKglRLndSjcrXirKvkER1cqRVyE7qvQ 2aNRVZ6rnanss+yaDNiswBXTEKgame5v0rwHA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=s8ANA5hktSF7WrE4jYnrq6bMg8zjDYzNRipjlg8fth3N3K3G1PwXtXZqtHTQyCrrZY YT2l78OOOEK/OVV0w2lXeC15QCpTd1WnJT/2YvB9w+PwB3qsmbUEflJYJ1S+bRcx8Ydw e/cFL8TokBjFClSamaYjf0ZgP23euunyc4y6c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.157.136 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:55:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100401135841.GA98802@potato> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> <20100329172352.GA85779@potato> <20100331005639.GA91332@potato> <6201873e1003301813o32024529s8dae620af17b87db@mail.gmail.com> <20100401135841.GA98802@potato> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 22:55:48 +0100 Received: by 10.239.160.19 with SMTP id a19mr106257hbd.165.1270158948993; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:55:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: krad To: John Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Adam Vande More , Varan Okul , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 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: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:55:51 -0000 On 1 April 2010 14:58, John wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:56:06AM +0100, krad wrote: > > > > we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. > We > > are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the > next > > chasis. > > I configured the disks as JBOD but got the same results. I think the > problem lies with all the disks each being 2TB so they can't be seen > with sysinstall. maybe the way forward is to boot to live CD so there's > a full environment, then try to sort it with GPT, then do an install > from the liveCD. I'll try this tonight. > -- > John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com > OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop > GPG: 0xF08A33C5 > your probably right as sysinstall only handles mbr, not gpt and you will definately need gpt.