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Subject: FreeBSD 4.9 with ICP Vortex Raid Controller GDT8586RZ and disk
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> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with doing newfs on FreeBSD 4.9 with "iir" raid driver.
My
> server works fine until I want to use the whole disk space of my raid 5
> system with round about 980GB. A reduced disk space at round about 480GB
> works fine but I'am not able to bring FreeBSD setup to work with disk
space
> bigger than that. During the installation the newfs command don't come to
an
> end.
>
> So does anyone know a limitation of the newfs command. Do I have to use an
> other command than newfs during setup and how is the way to call it. I get
a
> strange message at the beginning of the fdisk programm that I have to
> correct the physical architecture of the disk (cyl/sec(heads). Do I have
to
> correct it really manually and how do I find the correct one's ?
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> Thomas Schloßbauer, Germany
>