From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 13:56:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20C5106566B for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:56:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from comp.john@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D198FC1B for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so4803591bwz.3 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:56:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:user-agent; bh=tywp7fnL2sspa0LVAYCwEQJ+jlC+SbDs251rpo5HJCY=; b=mjf1RJKCfoYSCRj8W6/CshDMz9JIxEcjgJVYlgWlYyMZdzw6ZOcittCCT8H/WhvvPe SlGizfIuydtmqTZbRYpZqLIj83ouSJlLuXCwTtilu4AwpGcSC+eR3m30kIYFaBxYasoG C9b3LaCOz8jTSoGZyAEIn+gULm4zcdkH4qEgA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent; b=KvfLZ5H+OwMLV0Q5oUbIpzlvDPM7WdBcxXvcEkgFtg7nXGyp3KZLQK01m5QFCyII2v oRmcUzW6Alug6nYoTT6nubLxQgV48DGairb/Aq+B0czCrK/V5jwTDTmWssYeLIHWstc4 HKQohpv234Zk6vBAcbFX0/brVwHPgMpvd/QxU= Received: by 10.204.144.130 with SMTP id z2mr3273551bku.55.1269870982054; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potato (potato.growveg.org [62.49.247.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a11sm38443940bkc.21.2010.03.29.06.56.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:53:40 +0100 From: John To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:56:24 -0000 Hello list I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server. Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on the SATA card (raid0 gives about 5.4Tb) but freebsd, after sysinstall loads and I set the timezone and keyboard, won't see the disk. I am accessing the server remotely via IDRAC6. This means I have a great deal of difficulty grabbing the console with alt-f2 on bootup. I have the feeling that maybe I have to pass a parameter to freebsd boot to make it see the virtual disk. Is this the cade? Or is the card just pants? Or is it not possible to boot over 2Tb? Or perhaps I need to boot a running system from a SD card, and then make the virtual disk? Or is it a sysinstall issue? Or a card issue? Freebsd sees the card (at least freebsd-9 did) but not the disk (same as freebsd-8) FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5