From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 13:15: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backmaster.cdsnet.net (backmaster.cdsnet.net [63.163.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 752C037B400 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:14:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17998 invoked by uid 29999); 19 Mar 2002 21:15:56 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:15:56 -0800 From: Jaye Mathisen To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Message-ID: <20020319131556.D99985@backmaster.cdsnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Trying to disklabel a 1 TB disk (with sysinstall or disklabel) produces a lot of errors. In sysinstall, there's a kazillion overflows and negative offsets, and stuff. With disklabel, it tells me that the partition size needs to be truncated, then writes the label. then if I run disklabel again, it takes the truncated size, says it's too big, and truncates it again. Interestingly enough, using DOS FDISK to put a 32MB dos partition at the beginning of the drive makes it all work fine. I am not convinced that I am not missing some space, but I haven't counted up everything yet. In any case, is this supposed to work? I'll snag a ton of data if somebody wants to look at it, but I don't want to invest the time if it's not meant to. This is a 8 disk Maxtor 160GB disks in raid 5, on a 3ware 7850 with the 7.4 release firmware. -Stable supped as of 3/19. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message