From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 22:18:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1593C16A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.kanji.com.au (adsl-114-194.swiftdsl.com.au [202.154.114.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D1D43FAF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from als@kanji.com.au) Received: from kanji.com.au (unknown [10.0.0.209]) by mail1.kanji.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD8932DD; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:18:27 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3F654B9B.1010300@kanji.com.au> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:18:19 +1000 From: Andrew Snow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson References: <3F64E50E.2040608@kanji.com.au> <20030914214758.W5214@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20030914214758.W5214@root.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ibm x345 w/ serveraid-5i + freebsd ips driver dramas X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:18:40 -0000 > This problem was fixed last week by a commit by Paul Saab. You can wait > for 5.2R or use -current. Thanks for the info. If only it was made clearer... >>So I tested a few alternate geometries instead and even though there >>were no error messages, it seemed to get reset to what FreeBSD was >>reporting, no matter how many ways I tried to use the fdisk utility. > This is not the driver's fault but fdisk's. I really hate FreeBSD's fdisk > and do not ever use it. Oh, ok... can you suggest a reasonable work around? Thanks. - Andrew