From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 23 23:38:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (adsl-64-166-71-242.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.166.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF26137B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4O6kIg01320; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105240646.f4O6kIg01320@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Troy Brocato Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex DAC960PD and DEC DS-BA356-KF In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 16:47:06 EDT." <20010523163811.C435-100000@mail.intuos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:46:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a driver problem; I'm not sure what's going on, and I don't have one of these adapters to test with anymore. I've attempted to explain it to several people in the hope that they'll experiment with it, but to no avail. 8( > freebsd-hardware, > > I have a Mylex DAC960PD with 8mb cache and a Digital DS-BA356-KF > raid hotswap pedistal w/ single personality card installed. In the > pedistal i have 2 9gig drives that are a matched pair running RAID-0, and > 2 18 gig drives that are a matched pair running RAID-0. Upon installing > FreeBSD 4.3.1 I am running into "Error 80 Attempt to write beyond end of > drive". The kernel sees the DAC960PD and the drives correctly. In Fdisk > i choose the option to use the entire disk and when labeling i choose the > auto option. When FBSD goes and starts to make newfs it bombs with the > afforementioned error. Any help or enlightenment is greatly appreciated > > > > > Thanks, > > Troy Brocato > CTO Intuos Communications, Inc. > CCIE > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message