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Subject: Re: RocketRAID 2224
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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