From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 00:31:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F0C16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:31:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.carracing.com (mail.carracing.com [66.28.74.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5FE43D2D for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:31:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@ethernext.com) Received: from mail.carracing.com (mail.carracing.com [66.28.74.15]) by mail.carracing.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2D8VHTp046938 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:31:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bill@ethernext.com) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:31:17 -0500 (EST) From: "W. Desjardins" X-X-Sender: bill@mail.carracing.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040313031236.Q45311@mail.carracing.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: 3ware 7506-8 disk issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "W. Desjardins" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 08:31:18 -0000 All... I have a system with a 3ware 7506-8 controller and 6 wd 250MB drives in a raid 5 config (1.2TB storage). The problem I am having is trying to configure the raid 5 array as a disk. using sysinstall, I get this message with every fdisk key press: 'a geometry of 152005/255/63 for twed0 is incorrect' from there it drops me to the fdisk window and using 'a' for the entire disk, gives me this geometry which is invalid offset size end 0 63 62 63 2441960262 2441960324 -1853006971 14715 2441975039 first, that seems very wrong, but I leave fdisk anyway. when I go into disklabel, I get an error stating: Fatal Error: Partitions are larger than actual chunk?? - PRESS ANY KEY TO QUIT so, I can not create that disk. I am running 4.9 with the latest 3ware drivers compiled in. 3ware specifies to use 4.8 with their drivers, but I get the exact same err on 4.8. I am not as adept to on the cli setting up the disk, but everything I try fails. I think I could get it working with the right geometry, but I am not sure how to even get that. questions.... can the twe driver support this config? how can I detect the actual geometry of the raid5 disk? what steps are needed to setup the disk? At this point, I am at a loss on this, so any suggestions or help is appreciated. Also...I have followed the handbook and any other doc I can research on the website, google and anywhere else with no avail... TIA, Bill