Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:27:48 +0000 From: "Aldas Nabazas" <freebsd.stable1@gmail.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdinand.goldmann@jku.at>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC6? Message-ID: <9c1614e00801230727t77cc3fcawa28a8fc43f99f665@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200801230858.02773.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <478F5138.6010708@jku.at> <479072D9.9030307@jku.at> <20080120145036.GA6847@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200801230858.02773.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Jan 23, 2008 1:58 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008 09:50:36 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: > > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > >> You'd be best off with RELENG_7 and not 6.3, but yes, the controller > in > > >> question should work on RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_3. > > > > > > Very well, seems like I am going to give RELENG_7 a try then. > > > Thanks to everyone who replied! > > > > Another user just posted to -stable about problems with these Dell > > machines and PERC6. I'm not sure if you're subscribed to -stable or > > not, so here's the thread: > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039791.html > > The problem folks are having are with using volumes greater than 1 TB. > The > BSD label cannot handle such large disks. Instead, if you are just using > the disk for data you can newfs /dev/mfid1 directly and use it as a > filesystem, or if you need to partition the disk you can use gpt(8) to do > so. If you need to boot from such a large disk you will need to use the > GPT boot code in HEAD (I will backport it to 6.x and 7.x soon). I've > successfully used it to boot on 2 TB mfi(4) volumes. Unfortunately > sysinstall doesn't support GPT at all, only the older MBR + BSD label > method. > > Note that this problem has nothing to do with mfi(4) at all, but it is a > limitation of the BSD label + MBR that applies to any volume >= 2 TB. > Hi John, It seems that the problem is exactly as you described as i was able to get everything working setting 2x146 disks as RAID1 and 4x146 as RAID5. Regards, Aldas
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