From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 00:12:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104F316A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 00:12:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bjwcs.com (swing.bjwcs.com [208.185.25.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2BE43D1D for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 00:12:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from SAMBA [66.252.69.26] by bjwcs.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.04) id A564242B00B4; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:12:20 -0400 From: "Brent Wiese" To: "'Nick Evans'" , Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:12:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcSQbLm5nF8ggNC5R2i40dSh5ibWggAE4Lqw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <20040901174317.79b8fe20@paladin.talkpoint.com> Message-Id: <200409012012327.SM02696@SAMBA> Subject: RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:12:24 -0000 > dmesg: > > 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, > version: 2.50.00.000 > twa0: <3ware 9000 series Storage Controller> port > 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfb800000-0xfbffffff,0xfe9ffc00-0xf Pre-9500 controllers have a hardware limit of 2TB per RAID volume. Likely that's your issue. And, before you decide to break it into 2 RAID volumes, be aware the highly optimized and blazing fast performance is *only* on the first volume. Additional volumes are very slow. Its something 3ware doesn't advertise but will usually admit to if confronted. Brent