From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 31 16:51:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A78E816A407 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:51:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from mail.digitalfreaks.org (arbitor.digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5982E43D67 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:51:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix, from userid 1022) id AE0C617D83; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:51:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA6517D7A; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:51:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:51:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" X-X-Sender: lavalamp@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org To: "Krempasky, Mark" In-Reply-To: <15E9811B1FA2534EA2284DC97EF9E79F06B5F6AE@THN-EXCLS1.dc1.doubleclick.corp> Message-ID: <20061031114841.S63561@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: <15E9811B1FA2534EA2284DC97EF9E79F06B5F6AE@THN-EXCLS1.dc1.doubleclick.corp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 2950 Perc 5/i RAID Controller and FreeBSD 6.1 Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:51:25 -0000 It would be very very useful if you provided dmesg(8), bsdlabel(8), and fdisk(8) outputs to illustrate the problem. For each RAID group you assemble in the BIOS/CMOS utility, you should see a seaparate mfid[0-9] phyiscal device. Once properly partitioned, they should each contain "s1" slice -- for some reason we number disks from 0 but slices from 1 (possibily because the BIOS does) Then each physical slice can be BSD labeled'd with [a-z] ~BAS On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Krempasky, Mark wrote: > Hi, > > We have a new Dell 2950 with 6 disks, we have verified that the bios and > raid controller firmware are up to date. > > Our issue is: after creating 3, RAID 1 virtual disk groups and > initializing them we successfully install FreeBSD 6.1 on the first raid > group. > We then create a file system on the second raid group which seems to > wipe out the FreeBSD install on the first disk group. > > It seems as though FreeBSD6.1 is not differentiating between the > different disk groups thus when you make changes to 1 group it will > write the changes to the other. > > Anyone have any ideas on how to get FreeBSD6.1 to differentiate between > the different virtual disk groups on a Dell 2950? > > Thanks > Mark. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were."