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At 11:54 AM 9/8/2005, G=F6ran Nilsson wrote:
>Hi. I have recently installed Freebsd 5.4 . I have also installed a cheap
>raidcontroller . On the controller i put on a 200+120gb disk.
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>In the raidcontroller i create a JBOD raid, showing me that i now have=
 301gb
>of disk. That's a loss of 19gb, i can live with that.
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>After login I do a "atacontrol create JBOD ad5 ad6". It now creates ar0
>device with 223gb of space. That's nearly a 100gb of disk loss!
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>If and how can i prevent the huge 100gb of storage loss?

If all you're going to do is use "JBOD", why even=20
have the raid controller in the first place?

-Glenn


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