Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:43:18 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Tuc at Beach House <tuc@tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Cc: Tuc at Beach House <tuc@ttsg.com> Subject: Re: 1TB issue Message-ID: <20040602004318.GA73188@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200406012353.i51NrOZj069823@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> References: <20040601234010.GA72828@panzer.kdm.org> <200406012353.i51NrOZj069823@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 19:53:24 -0400, Tuc at Beach House wrote: > > > What can I do to get this configured properly? It seems that if I > > > bring it down to RAID-1+0, it configures up fine (Not sure what the > > > geometry shows as, sorry). > > > > See another recent message on this list from Brooks Davis. It sounds like > > sysinstall has issues with large arrays in -current, but fdisk works okay. > > > > Try doing your installation on a smaller fdisk partition within sysinstall, > > and then once you're installed, use the command line fdisk to create > > another slice and use up the rest of the array. > > > This is a 2nd drive, so its ok. I already have 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 > installed on /dev/da1. > > If I just do : > > vjofn2# fdisk da0 > ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=135154 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=135154 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 2171248947 (1060180 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > <UNUSED> > > > So what config to command line fdisk should I use? > > p 1 0 0 0 > p 1 165 1 2171249010 > It looks like you may already have a partition there...it looks like it's about 1TB. Do things work when you attempt to disklabel it? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org
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