From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 29 18:02:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D3A16A401 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:02:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsdlist@cogeco.ca) Received: from fep9.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A202613C49D for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:02:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsdlist@cogeco.ca) Received: from buddha.cogeco.ca (d141-2-106.home.cgocable.net [24.141.2.106]) by fep9.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB40C88DF for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:25:19 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:25:15 -0500 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Paul Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-Id: <20070129172519.DB40C88DF@fep9.cogeco.net> Subject: Problem with s5000PAUl using a SRCS16 in Raid 5 with 5 * 500gig drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:02:36 -0000 Hello, I have been having troubles installing the amd64 platform on an Intel S5000pal system with the SRCS16 Raid controller using Raid 5 with 5 * 500gig drives. In order to get it to install I had to split the raid setup into two logical arrays. I guess it was too close to the 2TB limit as it was giving me read sector error when booting. However I now have it booting but it gets stuck at the Attempting to mount / (the root partition). This goes on for like 20 minutes and then it finally proceeds. This seems odd and clearly is a problem to mount the small / root partition that is only a few gigs big. Does anyone have an idea what is going on here? I also noticed it with adding a user it added the user but got stuck for like 10 minutes before proceeding. This system has 16GIG of ram using the amd64 platform and has 2 dual core cps running. I installed the centos just to see if there were any problems with this operating system (in case this was hardware related) but it worked 100% without any fuss. The problem is I want to use Freebsd :) So I do not believe this is hardware related. If anyone reading this has set up a S5000PAL system can they let me know what settings they used to have a successful installation? Thanks Paul