From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 6:22:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netgates.co.uk (macmail.netgates.co.uk [194.105.64.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF9114E33 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from didds@freenet.uk.com) Received: from freenet.uk.com (saul.netgates.co.uk [194.105.64.199]) by netgates.co.uk (8.7.5/8.x.x) with ESMTP id OAA00176 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:22:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37F0C10A.99F1EF91@freenet.uk.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:22:18 +0100 From: Ian Diddams X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Arena Disk Array (RAID 5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anybody had any experience building a RAID 5 bootable FreeBSD system using an Arena Disk Array ??? I've basically got a AMD-K6-2-400 cpu with 256 MB ram. Adaptec 2940 Ultra/Ultra Wide SCSI card; no EIDE drives whatsoever. The Arena Disk Array is configured for SCSI termination enabled (no actual physical terminator used), SCSI ID 4, RAID 5, 5 disks plus spare, 32 GB reported as "available" at install time. Installing from CD rom , Freebsd 3.2 install looks fine all through install procedure... using 100MB /, 500 MB /usr, 200 MB /var and 768 MB swap (3xRAM), the rest assigned to /var/mail (its to be our mail server eventually) the install dies with error messages aboput "unable to create /mnt/usr" (or mnt/var etc etc etc) or something similar. No matter what size of swap or partition space I try it fails to install. Any ideas? I must be doing something fundamentally wrong. Didds To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message