From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 14:32:01 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 B18CF106564A for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:32:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f195.google.com (mail-qy0-f195.google.com [209.85.221.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1B18FC08 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk33 with SMTP id 33so7352165qyk.28 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:32:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=R/AaXjhgsDZPtFgq4K/U7MuWAzcCQ8eqFySovuE2Nn8=; b=nqHKu3HLYx4DbgrK6ktxB8XxqgS4Gl1dsuxRwoHV88c9PMiOSExnenGk/ZF6ilsYqz xOBSWRWUeXP7UsV7/5fRqc2rB+56CLBEJfLMyRxfz9GXtMsdsFWlO6UWBNIuME+PR5eZ YUllmI+tipdxo11QCOK+0QS4BtBex4Errq1hc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=PkreBsnyKtQxpAa55u4Y9N7XH2PmyR9ByG/TV+lTGDdWZh1IDmwQuR9Mvd0/D013ov /WQXMt22KGcFgBVAET06gw3hXPIOm6F6t7B01rDOR+qR1jQjWTSuB+TzSgHZ7Sf6HPeP n9nE8gRqyy2U0gbPb/LrDuix7IH9ZklX7Rc+0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.82.14 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:31:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:31:59 -0600 Received: by 10.229.227.5 with SMTP id iy5mr3452528qcb.29.1269873119959; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: John Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 14:32:01 -0000 On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, John wrote: > 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! > You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size > TB. AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more "hands on" installation. If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS. In that scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and use RAIDZ. Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some good FreeBSD wiki articles on it. -- Adam Vande More