From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 17:10:12 2003 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 3FE2537B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:10:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A487B43FA3 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sandshrimp@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com (12-228-93-40.client.attbi.com[12.228.93.40]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <2003032001100905200m5r4de>; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:10:09 +0000 Message-ID: <3E78A4EC.9020700@attbi.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:12:12 +0000 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021026 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Gamble Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD install fails on a DAC960 RAID array References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Gamble wrote: >Good day, > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ryan Merrick [mailto:sandshrimp@attbi.com] >>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 6:48 AM >>To: Darren Gamble >>Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>Subject: Re: FreeBSD install fails on a DAC960 RAID array >> >>Hello, >> >>It has been a while since I have seen a DAC960, but this problem was >>solved by setting the partition size to 2GIGs instead of 8GIGs in the >>RAID BIOS. >> >>-Ryan >> >> > >Thanks for your help! We'll give that a shot. > >Just so that I understand this situation a bit better... why does that solve >the problem? > >============================ >Darren Gamble >Planner, Regional Services >Shaw Cablesystems GP >630 - 3rd Avenue SW >Calgary, Alberta, Canada >T2P 4L4 >(403) 781-4948 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > I do not know, but I think that it has to do with the geometry of the logical drive. When I worked for HostPro all of our MicronPC servers came with DAC 960's. I used Freebsd for testing "bad" hardware. The MS servers that used the DAC 960 could boot from both partition sizes. Ryan Merrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message