Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:00:31 -0800 (PST) From: Patrick Thomas <user@utility.clubscholarship.com> To: <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Dell PERC 2/QC only supples four containers to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020307223905.P93765-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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I have a Dell PERC 2/QC (the one with the four little micro connectors out the back...quad channel. I have 7 disks attached to channel 0 I have 4 disks attached to channel 1 --- I have made three RAID 1 mirror containers and left the 7th drive free as a standard volume on channel 0 I have made two RAID 1 mirror containers from the four drives on channel 1. So at this point, freeBSD should see 6 total disks. 5 mirror containers and one single volume. When FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE cd installation boots, in the dmesg I indeed see all six entries: aacd0: <RAID 1 (Mirror)> on aac0 aacd0: 8677MN (17771264 sectors) aacd1: <RAID 1 (Mirror)> on aac0 aacd1: 17355MN (35544576 sectors) ... aacd5: <RAID 1 (Mirror)> on aac0 aacd5: 69998MB (143357184 sectors) So far so good - dmesg sees all six "disks". But, I go into custom installation, and choose the 'Partition' menu entry, and since I have multiple disks I am immediately shown the "Select Drives" screen - the problem is, there are only _four_ drives in this screen. The four drives are aacd0 - aacd3. They are not all from one channel either, one of them is from channel 1, and the other three are from channel 0. --- I have tried moving the cursor past the fourth entry on the list and have the list scroll, but there is nothing else there. It (partition menu of /stand/sysinstall) seems to make only four (and a somewhat random four) of my drives available to me to format, etc. Any thougts on this ? I am thinking that maybe the mfsroot.flp disk is built with only four aacdX /dev nodes ? If this is correct, I could make a new mfsroot.flp. I find it odd though that the four it does decide to show are spread across the two channels...Again, though, comments and/or suggestions appreciated. --PT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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