From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 19 01:08:45 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 9B51316A585 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:08:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: from shell.dhp.com (shell.dhp.com [199.245.105.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C84F43D79 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:08:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: by shell.dhp.com (Postfix, from userid 896) id 1F8B831309; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:08:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:08:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Ensel Sharon To: Jahilliya In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-fs@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 01:08:45 -0000 On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: > > 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.) Ok. I will do this. My original strategy was to: 1. create a ~2.8TB raid6 array out of 8 500GB drives 2. just make one big monster partition of the entire 2.8TB under "partition" in sysinstall 3. under "label" in sysinstall, divide that into /, swap, /var and two large data partitions, neither of which exceeds 2TB (since snapshos have trouble over 2tb) do you think the above srategy is reasonable ?