Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:08:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: Jahilliya <jahilliya@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0606182106420.12027-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <ba5e78ea0606181804x52fbaf78g23e149543261fe93@mail.gmail.com>
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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 ?
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