Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:47:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0606182137270.12027-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <ba5e78ea0606181804x52fbaf78g23e149543261fe93@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: > > Ok, aac is in the dmesg. > > > > I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - > > there are just no drives listed in dmesg. > > > > My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any > > problems with that ? Perhaps sysinstall cannot deal with a >2TB drive > > ? There are no other drives in the system besides the single 2.8TB raid 6 > > array ... > > > > Have you got any other drives you can attach to the raid? > > If so, disconnect the 8 drives connected, connect up a couple that are > not part of the raid and configure them as a simple raid 1 and see if > the installers sees that raid. Or try any combination in drives to > bring the raid size down below 2TB (I'm sure this limitation has been > fixed.) Ok, the answer is that it has not been fixed. 6.1 sysinstall does in fact see both 2820sa controllers, and when I put in a single 160GB sata drive, it does see that single drive and I can install onto it, etc. Sysinstall does _not_ see my 2.7TB raid6 array. I suspect that if it were smaller than 2TB, it would see it correctly. I have a number of options with which to deal with this, all of which involve either wasting money or wasting disk space. Fantastic.
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