Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:23:58 -0400 From: Nick Gustas <nick@gustas.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RocketRAID 2224 Message-ID: <44EF322E.5060402@gustas.org> In-Reply-To: <44EEE32A.4090909@enc.edu> References: <44EEE32A.4090909@enc.edu>
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Dave Kingsley 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? All of the drivers seem to installed; at least > they say they are. > Is this just too big for FreeBSD? I hope not! > > Help! Zero out the first few tracks of da0 to clean off any cruft and use gpt to create the label (from memory, did this August 2005) gpt create /dev/da0 gpt add /dev/da0 newfs -youroptionshere /dev/da0p1 --------- df -h /3ware Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0p1 4.0T 3.8T 161G 96% /3ware
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