Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:32:48 -0400 From: Nick Evans <nevans@talkpoint.com> To: 'Brent Wiese ' <brently@bjwcs.com>, Nick Evans <nevans@talkpoint.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org '" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness Message-ID: <294123FE9E76C34193EF7019BAAE4B2C124E4A@postal.talkpoint.com>
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The card is a 9500-12 despite the driver saying otherwise. The array is built at 2.7T through the 3ware bios. bsdlabel just refuses to accept a label larger than 700-something gig. -----Original Message----- From: Brent Wiese To: 'Nick Evans'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: 9/1/04 8:12 PM Subject: RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness > 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. Brenthelp
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