From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 14:19:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C7AD016A492 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 14:19:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdow@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4350B43D78 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 14:19:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdow@earthlink.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=j7zfSgHseqXYarTixrZbGcnjjnMsfXgK5x8fLKdvIDuGnFBOBURF14oJnLoR4N1O; h=Received:Message-ID:From:To:References:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MimeOLE:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [71.116.177.151] (helo=Wednesday) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FjGgU-0007V3-FM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 10:19:31 -0400 Message-ID: <0afa01c68006$3cfb7770$0225a8c0@Wednesday> From: "jdow" To: References: <200605251357.k4PDvgCb016249@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 07:19:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-ELNK-Trace: bb89ecdb26a8f9f24d2b10475b57112064c23e9bf1fedadd8028b30ffd1463e770a0f41504b3ef63350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 71.116.177.151 Subject: Re: Disk Geometry Errors. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:19:43 -0000 From: "Jerry McAllister" >> >> One thing that comes to mind, as I read below, is that it appears you >> setup the drives for RAID 1. Then you transplanted to them to a RAID 5 >> controller. "Of course" the partition data will be wrong. The hidden >> blocks the two RAID controllers use are probably different and the >> method of storage for RAID 5 is quite different from that used by RAID 1. >> >> (Worse yet, you may have managed to hose the drives so that any data >> on them is gone.) >> >> {^_^} Joanne >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lisandro Grullon" >> >> Hi Kevin and thanks for repplyng, sysinstall does not crach at all, the >> problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting >> that contact "Disk Geometry" error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive. >> Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need >> to assist me further. > > I didn't follow all of this thread, so I may be missing something, but > check the FAQs and the list archives. Geometry error messages and > apparent (but not actual) mismatched have been discussed many times. > > Nowdays disk geometry as used by the OS is generally "virtual" and does > not exactly reflect the actual physical geometry. In other words, from > the point of view of how you use it, unless you are creating special driver > code, the geometry is fiction and, as long as it works, take what the OS > says and ignore any messages from fdisk. > > Now, if it is truly failing, you have non-fictional problems. That is the lecture I was getting ready to deliver when I noticed RAID 5 and RAID 1 with different controllers. RAID 5 and RAID 1 are not compatible. And there is a good chance that two different breeds of RAID firmware would store meta data for disk format differently. {^_-} (Heck, I have seen two Promise cards that store it differently or seemed to.) >> On 5/24/06, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >> > >> > Lisandro Grullon wrote: >> > > Good Morning, >> > > >> > > Last night I was trying installing a new Areca controller 1120 8 ports >> > > using a 5 bay (300GB seagate) drives Raid 5. The main OS is install >> > using the >> > > SATA controller in RAID 1 configuration of the mother board, the >> > addition of >> > > last night was a separate controller I install.The install when good and >> > I >> > > installed my modules in the kernel, now my problem is when I try to >> > > partition the volume using fdisk/label with system install it is giving >> > me >> > > nasty disk geometry incorrect error, can anyone tell me what is this all >> > > about? Thank you. >> > >> > We'd probably need some more information. Does sysinstall crash? >> > Does the fdisk information get written to disk anyway? The label? >> > >> > KDK >> > >> > -- >> > Zero Mostel: That's it baby! When you got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it! >> > -- Mel Brooks, The Producers >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Lisandro Grullon >> New York City College of Technology >> Division of Continuing Education >> Director of Network Operations >> Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 >> Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon@citytech.cuny.edu >> "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"