From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 23 15:27:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5F516A41A for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.stable1@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35BC13C4E9 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.stable1@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so1714671nzf.13 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:27:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=cudkkhtWs9yas95Yt5FRNwtKn6UTUkkUBO66HzEEbjU=; b=YAbr+kRUS1bsw3bm4NWpP1nCG/khBQ+5rhhQtZFbTTBunEFbEz7AOlIzbJqzqIlx7UfnbO+Stf2NZIjxgok5JHdt2NLIGabsQCJRqUXUdKN6l8EBXpwZyKm0+qFbA9u9i5r4vH2UnDkEQndJUMYjNByU24u17fwGSJU593J/rmQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=i42Q7Ug95Af0JyiX0pxJZPWKKGSGDt0twe7NLmyyly1aqBMDlaTmSZvbMUP5J4uyv7rA+aFsiKM90EPmQZlWUUo0KFIzl8lYp276Mm9LecSPwjsA8uJrSdyHFFCeYRBhSmsCvvZVay9ClTBrjO0/2Fa6n8+tuVv4Zpp+EUhfgNE= Received: by 10.141.15.19 with SMTP id s19mr6394177rvi.269.1201102068465; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:27:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.193.13 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:27:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9c1614e00801230727t77cc3fcawa28a8fc43f99f665@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:27:48 +0000 From: "Aldas Nabazas" To: "John Baldwin" In-Reply-To: <200801230858.02773.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <478F5138.6010708@jku.at> <479072D9.9030307@jku.at> <20080120145036.GA6847@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200801230858.02773.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , Ferdinand Goldmann , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:27:50 -0000 On Jan 23, 2008 1:58 PM, John Baldwin 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