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Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>,
	Dave Kingsley <david.kingsley@enc.edu>
Subject: sysinstall disklabel limit
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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