From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 3 2:56:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5248237B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 02:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk [195.10.240.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D15843E52 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 02:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost.epcdirect.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367154D942; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:56:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from lfarr (bka.shorewood-epc.co.uk [192.168.15.200]) by mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FB14D93A; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:56:10 +0100 (BST) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: Cc: "'Thomas Novin'" Subject: RE: Problem creating slices on 690 GB RAID-5 Array Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:56:10 +0100 Message-ID: <004301c22277$dbcf8c60$c80fa8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020703090348.02c19e18@pop.thalamus.se> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by Shorewood-EPC (mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Did you just try it anyway? I have: /dev/twed0s1e 160G 132G 15G 90% /usr/home/sandwich /dev/twed0s1f 160G 104G 43G 71% /usr/home/burger /dev/twed0s1g 160G 112G 35G 76% /usr/home/hotdog /dev/twed0s1h 160G 133G 15G 90% /usr/home/cola All quite happy on: 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Fri Feb 15 19:30:19 GMT 2002 Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Thomas Novin > Sent: 03 July 2002 08:12 > To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: Problem creating slices on 690 GB RAID-5 Array > > > Hi guys. > > I have a problem getting FreeBSD to accept my 690 GB RAID-5 > Array. This is > what I see in /stand/sysinstall diskPartitionEditor: > > WARNING: A geometry of 90103/255/63 for twed0 is incorrect. > Bla bla... > > The array is set up of 7 pcs of 120 GB IBM disks on a 3ware > Escalade 7850 > controller in RAID-5 (64K blocksize). I created a smaller > array of 3 disks > and that worked fine. No problems in FreeBSD. > > # dmesg | grep twe > twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xefa0-0xefaf mem > 0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff,0xfebffc00-0xfebffc0f irq 10 at device > 3.0 on pci1 > twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.023, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.036 > twed0: on twe0 > twed0: 706794MB (1447515648 sectors) > # uname -a > FreeBSD hercules 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Tue Jul 2 > 18:45:09 CEST > 2002 root@hercules:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCSI i386 > > Ideas anyone? How can I figure out the correct geometry? > > Regards, > > > > -- > Thomas Novin . thnov@thalamus.se . > http://xyz.pp.se/~thnov/pgp_thalamus.asc > System Engineer . > Thalamus Consulting AB . http://www.thalamus.se > V: +46 (0)431 445400 . F: +46 (0)431 445410 . GSM: +46 (0)704 280382 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message