From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 07:15:40 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 A09E016A407 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mhall@riverside.org) Received: from ukiah.riverside.org (ispman.riverside.org [64.119.4.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C61113C428 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mhall@riverside.org) Received: from ukiah.riverside.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.riverside.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E44022E59 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mhall@riverside.org) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=riverside.org; h=received:x-virus-scanned:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; q=dns; s=postfix; bh=aMcMRapZTeyEmOuyyrQT7TjBMUM=; b=OMqpaxkSnBVMk5wEt6gvsI6g4Ec2TFA99HcrW3/NvrdPHcVjbDmrHzHK3VuqGj9JX30wUOlL6xJK1LPtiWfHu3OamJkGRBtsrMcqsH4hZEV9uiZBNcwomcCO00yPwAtEchVLHRZajqp/cfrWKFgnf5M8/xhDTIX8x/pNxWn32Qc= Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.riverside.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3693F22E32 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mhall@riverside.org) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at riverside.org Received: from ukiah.riverside.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ukiah.riverside.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id gU2XLOwWJ+wC for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:46:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nowthen.riverside.org (nowthen.riverside.org [64.119.4.11]) by ukiah.riverside.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39C522DE6 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:46:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mhall@riverside.org) Received: by nowthen.riverside.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C45F14FCDC; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:46:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:46:06 -0800 From: Michael Hall To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070112064606.GA23100@riverside.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <669E8D5D-E286-42DC-800F-24D7DDB2469F@svcolo.com> <000901c735fc$d180ac10$3301a8c0@janmxp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 07:15:40 -0000 On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:28:29PM -0800, 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. > > Sorry for being terse, but I have to solve the boot problem which is > what started this conversation. Why not use 3BM (3Ware BIOS Manager) to setup the RAID. Create the RAID with it, specify a boot volume, turn off autocarving, so it creates two units (one smaller boot volume, and all the rest it a large unit). Setp the smaller unit like normal (fdisk, newfs, etc) and setup the larger unit with GPT. Using 3BM avoids the cart->horse issue with 3DM2/CLI. -- I saw Elvis! He sat between me and BigFoot in the UFO! Mike Hall San Juan Island, WA System Admin - Rock Island Communications System Admin - riverside.org, ssdd.org