Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:53:19 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Dave Kingsley <david.kingsley@enc.edu> Subject: sysinstall disklabel limit Message-ID: <200608251353.20035.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <44EEE36E.1040201@enc.edu> References: <44EEE36E.1040201@enc.edu>
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On Friday 25 August 2006 07:47, Dave Kingsley wrote: > I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a > storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D > 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. > When I set up a RAID5 with 7 750GB drives I get nothing but wierdness. > Using sysinstall -> Configure -> Fdisk I can see the full size: > DISK Geometry: 547149 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8789948685 sectors > (4291967MB) > > But Label sees: > Disk: da0 Partition name: da0s1 Free: 200014030 blocks (97663MB) > > What am I doing wrong? All of the drivers seem to installed; at least > they say they are. > Is this just too big for FreeBSD? I hope not! I think there are some patches to fix sysinstall, but it still tops out at 2TB I thought. cc'ing some folks who probably know better than I. -- John Baldwin
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