From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 06:36:13 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 3FA3316A412 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:36:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F2113C458 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 82542 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jan 2007 06:36:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (216.220.116.154) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 12 Jan 2007 06:36:12 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:36:01 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Jo Rhett In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 06:36:13 -0000 On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: > 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. The pages I mention are for the 3Ware BIOS, not tw_cli or 3DM2... I'm looking at the pdf and the screenshots are clearly from the 3Ware BIOS. Check it out... Charles > 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 > > > >