From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 15:57:09 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 F1765106564A for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5641A8FC0A for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so139441fxm.3 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:57:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=fij4IpnGCnmvXYZqCYfC+q0xTvMMYV5eI/gdg8/2KJc=; b=MAc3orWy9kF6fYiS869DuePLNq5J+7CUd3jlw9RntPKwDSWy3E1b37qLUOa9rd2aKx N5ShBKPG27KYTs/ppU9U1Kw+arX6IJ2Fx5UAFjCo7czoBrux2M2qriQiY+W9RN2vJ0Zv gGEUtVPpxZBlwW8KT+JE+R57vULLwv02bqw2c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=qwu0C30eCajw01pZr/YDV8S4swzOEhwf09uTWrjxH2tcmJPXGfG8J4Yv9136FeO1a7 NCcsMuyBZAMXIy72MbuOcoNzA7Dq9PyvNUUojGmtxAX954jdR69MLqAxwh5Cw9Pg7x5Z 0W7E7BvNb3wQy6eAMTr9+QhFtVNKPgWbR+ZD4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.157.136 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:57:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:57:08 +0100 Received: by 10.239.152.211 with SMTP id w19mr460595hbb.150.1269878228110; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: krad To: Adam Vande More Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: John , 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 15:57:10 -0000 On 29 March 2010 15:39, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More >wrote: > > > > >> 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. > > > > Opps, didn't read the RAID-0 bit, still try the GPT stuff, the 2TB MBR is a > hard limit. gstripe(8) would also be an option. With you're RAID-0, were > you looking of for read or write speed? You can still use RAIDZ and > outperform a straight stripe in most workloads if you make use of an ssd > based L2ARC and a ZIL for read and writes respectively. > > > -- > Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I think his problem is he cant see a device to partition in the first place?