From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 19 01:04:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF39416A479 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE0143D6E for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:04:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id m7so480396nzf for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:04:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KV30n6GcTdgX0Mn+179vrDDN7oHc2yaPrMMR/jLWBi4lG7Z0k/nRmIE2BcrtQzpF/3wnCRIA5BzUoGP9TCNS2N1dB8570VvKX4nvbGWStM0oQSN1KX62DpcYMBUDmdKlvup3/AU+9bMeGqonfUws8Scn7M+aLpy+DgA2uFe6Vmk= Received: by 10.37.12.45 with SMTP id p45mr6799747nzi; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.15.74 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:04:56 +0800 From: Jahilliya To: "Ensel Sharon" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:04:58 -0000 > Ok, aac is in the dmesg. > > I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - > there are just no drives listed in dmesg. > > My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any > problems with that ? Perhaps sysinstall cannot deal with a >2TB drive > ? There are no other drives in the system besides the single 2.8TB raid 6 > array ... > Have you got any other drives you can attach to the raid? If so, disconnect the 8 drives connected, connect up a couple that are not part of the raid and configure them as a simple raid 1 and see if the installers sees that raid. Or try any combination in drives to bring the raid size down below 2TB (I'm sure this limitation has been fixed.)