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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:27:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Anthony J. Palik" <lottamiata@yahoo.com>
To:        Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PERC 5/i support
Message-ID:  <780064.84868.qm@web83601.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

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Yes, I will forward this message as well.  It appears that the error message regarding drive geography when installing is simply erroneous.  The OS has no trouble handling a logical drive that is 750 GB in size (1.5 TB mirrored and striped via RAID 10).  Even though there does not appear to be any problem with the OS, that error message should be corrected since I spent an entire day trying to solve a problem that didn't exist.

Thanks :)

 ----- Original Message ----
From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
To: Anthony J. Palik <lottamiata@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:58:13 AM
Subject: Re: PERC 5/i support

Anthony J. Palik wrote:
>
> Thanks so much for the kindness of your reply; it is greatly 
> appreciated.  I just tried using the 6.3 boot disc but I am having the 
> same problem.  I was booting into 7.0 stable.  In either case, I have 
> six RAID 10 configurd 250 GB SATA physical drives combined into one 
> logical drive, and the installer doesn't like the geometry of 
> 90954/255/63 and wants me to enter the correct numbers (which I cannot 
> determine after looking through the BIOS configuration software, 
> although I may be looking in the wrong place). 
>
>  
>
> The exact version of the PERC 5/i controller is:
>
> package: 5.2.1-0067
>
> FW version: 1.03.40-0316
>
> BIOS version: MT28-8
>
> Ctrl-R version (setup software): 1.04-019A
>
> boot block version: R.2.3.12
>
Ah, well that's a different issue altogether.  I've re-added the mailing 
lists so that other folks smarter than myself can take a look at this 
information.

Sean



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