From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 06:28:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C633316A4FF for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (kininvie.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB1A13C457 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from [10.66.240.106] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0C6Sar2089239; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) In-Reply-To: References: <45A5FD8A.6080409@svcolo.com><2918081F-D376-410B-B6FD-42BDD3323575@svcolo.com><20070111213444.GB17185@zone3000.net><20070112005510.2e145462.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <669E8D5D-E286-42DC-800F-24D7DDB2469F@svcolo.com> <000901c735fc$d180ac10$3301a8c0@janmxp> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jo Rhett Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:28:29 -0800 To: Charles Sprickman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Spam-Score: undef - SENDER Whitelisted (jrhett@svcolo.com: Mail from user authenticated via SMTP AUTH allowed always) X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: 43656 - 963cf3e38cab X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 64.13.135.12 Cc: Jan Mikkelsen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:28:40 -0000 On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: > >>>>> Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on >>>>> big fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid >>>>> controllers. >>>> I'd be very surprised if you can't. You can certainly do it >>>> with Areca (arcmsr(4)), HP (ciss(4)), IBM ServeRAID (ips(4)), >>>> although the details vary. >> >> On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: >>> I can confirm 3Ware controllers also work that way. >> >> Please enlighten me. I see no such options in the BIOS menu. > > I've done it in 3DM2, but look at pages 23+24 (printed page > numbers) here and the stuff regarding setting up a seperate boot > volume: > > http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/3ware9590SEUsrGuide.pdf Those are CLI functions. Which means you have to boot to run the CLI, so cart->horse. Sorry for being terse, but I have to solve the boot problem which is what started this conversation. For data arrays not part of boot, I could simply use GPT and be done with it. I only need small volumes to solve the boot problem. -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation