Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:02:44 +0100 From: Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Dave Kingsley <david.kingsley@enc.edu>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall disklabel limit Message-ID: <44EF3B44.6030500@joeholden.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200608251353.20035.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <44EEE36E.1040201@enc.edu> <200608251353.20035.jhb@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] John Baldwin wrote: > 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. > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html ta, J [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7ztGdQJXshOm0ecRAne5AJ4zXviMFmyPDDm9JeWK2QuI0+lqbgCfT3xb QygHyYLLyEHtiW9kml+NSpA= =WBl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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