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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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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 =3D 8789948685 sector=
s=20
>> (4291967MB)
>>
>> But Label sees:
>> Disk: da0       Partition name: da0s1   Free: 200014030 blocks (97663M=
B)
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?  All of the drivers seem to installed; at least=
=20
>> they say they are.
>> Is this just too big for FreeBSD?  I hope not!
>=20
> I think there are some patches to fix sysinstall, but it still tops out=
 at 2TB=20
> I thought.  cc'ing some folks who probably know better than I.
>=20
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html

ta,
J


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