Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:42:49 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Marthias, Santosso" <SMarthias@epsiloninteractive.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 and RAID controller PERC 5/i in DELL PowerEdge 2950 Message-ID: <20061026184249.GA19794@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <5FD48E0A25949A4EA7A60BA7856A06B1B07289@ex01-thn.office.epsiloninteractive.com> References: <5FD48E0A25949A4EA7A60BA7856A06B1B07289@ex01-thn.office.epsiloninteractive.com>
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:27:00PM -0600, Marthias, Santosso wrote: > Hello All, > > > > We have DELL PowerEdge 2950 with RAID controller PERC 5/i and 6 Fujitsu > 73GB SAS disks. > > We created 3 RAID-1 virtual disks out of the 6 disks : > > VD0 = RAID-1 using disk0 and disk1 > > VD1 = RAID-1 using disk2 and disk3 > > VD2 = RAID-1 using disk4 and disk5 > > > > After that we installed FreeBSD 6.1. > > The FreeBSD 6.1 OS went to the first virtual disk (shown as mfid0 in > sysinstall), we choose standard for "Install Boot Manager". > > The other 2 virtual disks we're using for data partition (entire mfid1 > mount as /data and entire mfid2 mount as /data/app), we choose none for > "Install Boot Manager". > > > > The installation completed with no error. > > However, once the server in boot process, it shows error for > /dev/mfid0s1a and require fsck on it. We tried to fsck but it failed. > And looks like at this point the OS has corrupted. > > > > One thing is working, if we only use mfid0 for OS installation and leave > (not use at all) mfid1 and mfid2, then the server rebooted fine after > the OS installation (we get the login prompt). > > The problem is we want to have mfid0 for OS, mfid1 for /data, and mfid2 > for /data/app separated from each other and not together in one big > virtual disk. > > > > Anybody know about this issue? Any suggestion? > There have been several bug fixes and improvements made to the mfi(4) driver since 6.1 was released, including one that is supposed to fix problems with multiple volumes. I would suggest trying the latest 6.2-BETA and see if that works better. (It probably will.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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