Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:13:37 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Dave Kingsley" <david.kingsley@enc.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RocketRAID 2224 Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608250913s78fefcc2o7dee4bae44d5993@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44EEE32A.4090909@enc.edu> References: <44EEE32A.4090909@enc.edu>
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On 8/25/06, Dave Kingsley <david.kingsley@enc.edu> wrote: > I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a > storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D > 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. > When I set up a RAID5 with 7 750GB drives I get nothing but wierdness. > Using sysinstall -> Configure -> Fdisk I can see the full size: > DISK Geometry: 547149 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8789948685 sectors > (4291967MB) > > But Label sees: > Disk: da0 Partition name: da0s1 Free: 200014030 blocks (97663MB) > > What am I doing wrong? Nothing. Sysinstall can't handle disks that big. There is a 2TB soft limit. UFS2 can support disks up to 8 ZettaBytes (8,589,934,592 TeraBytes) but some of the software tools have not been converted yet, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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