Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:09:33 +0200 From: "Dave Raven" <dave@raven.za.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 2TB (and above) Disk Message-ID: <010501c7bd84$2dc311c0$89493540$@za.net>
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Hi all, Firstly I am using FreeBSD 4, I know it's not supported but hopefully someone has some experience with large disks on 4. I have a box with 6x 500gig drives, configured in raid 5 which comes out around 2.3 terabytes of space. With that, the system picks up the drive (da0) as 0MB in size. I haven't been able to solve that, but took one drive out (moving it to 1.9gig) and it works fine... However, when I try to use /stand/sysinstall I get tons of drive geometry errors, and can't create more than a 1TB slice. If I use "A" to use whole disk, it goes through with a negative number but then the labeling part of the process gives a " paritions are larger than actual chunk " error. I then ran "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=1" and "disklabel -wr da0 auto". This seems to setup a working paritition table, but any attempts on the drive after that to do a newfs result in: "newfs preposterous size" and a negative number... Any ideas or is it even possible? Thanks in advance Dave
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