Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:47:17 -0800 From: Doug Sampson <dougs@dawnsign.com> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 3Ware 9650SE with 4 disk array Message-ID: <9DE6EC5B5CF8C84281AE3D7454376A0D6D0210@cetus.dawnsign.com>
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> Hi, > > We've received a server containing 3Ware 9650SE controller > with 4 ports and > it comes with 4 WD7500AYYS drives with the following drive > parameters of LBA > 1465149168 (sectors?). I'm using FBSD 7.0 RC-1 which provides > the necessary > drivers for that controller card. The array is created using RAID5. > > The problem arises when I fdisk the drive array. The > sysinstall installation > routine complains that the drive parameters provided by the BIOS is > incorrect. When I ask to see the drive info using fdisk, I am > given the > following information: > > # fdisk > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=273542 heads=255 sectors/tracks=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from BIOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 88484871 (48576 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 165/ sector 59 > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > <UNUSED> > # > > I see that when I am finished setting up the drive array, I > am getting a > much smaller use of the entire array. Using the "Auto Defaults" option > inside bsdlabel, I end up with /dev/da0s1f (/usr) in the > range of 40 GB. I > should be seeing something in the order of 2 TB. > > I've tried fdisking and bsdlabeling for 2 Tb to no avail > several times. > > What am I doing wrong? > Turns out the disk array had a partition set up for 2048 GB which FBSD 7.0 RC-1 doesn't support. Auto-carving the array to 2047 GB did the trick.
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