Re: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness
Nick Evans wrote: The card is a 9500-12 despite the driver saying otherwise. The array is built at 2.7T through the 3ware bios. bsdlabel just refuses to accept a label larger than 700-something gig. http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness
dmesg: 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 2.50.00.000 twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfb80-0xfbff,0xfe9ffc00-0xf e9ffcff irq 48 at device 1.0 on pci4 twa0: [GIANT-LOCKED] twa0: 12 ports, Firmware FE9X 2.02.00.008, BIOS BE9X 2.02.01.037 ... ... ... da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: 3ware Logical Disk 00 1.00 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 100.000MB/s transfers da0: 2860896MB (5859115008 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364713C) # /dev/da0: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 58591150080unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit Using the label above on da0 gives the following error: partition c: partition extends past end of unit disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities Using fdisk in sysinstall or a bsdlabel with * in the size fields writes the following to disk: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 11576279040unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit e: 115553075204.2BSD 4096 32768 0 I've got a 3ware 8500-8 on a 5.1-RELEASE system with a 1.7T array that the handbook procedure for adding a dedicated disk worked fine with. In that case the number of sectors was 3418765056 on partition c. No problems with that system for almost a year, same procedure here doesn't work. Any ideas? Nick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness
dmesg: 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 2.50.00.000 twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfb80-0xfbff,0xfe9ffc00-0xf Pre-9500 controllers have a hardware limit of 2TB per RAID volume. Likely that's your issue. And, before you decide to break it into 2 RAID volumes, be aware the highly optimized and blazing fast performance is *only* on the first volume. Additional volumes are very slow. Its something 3ware doesn't advertise but will usually admit to if confronted. Brent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness
The card is a 9500-12 despite the driver saying otherwise. The array is built at 2.7T through the 3ware bios. bsdlabel just refuses to accept a label larger than 700-something gig. -Original Message- From: Brent Wiese To: 'Nick Evans'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/1/04 8:12 PM Subject: RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness dmesg: 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 2.50.00.000 twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfb80-0xfbff,0xfe9ffc00-0xf Pre-9500 controllers have a hardware limit of 2TB per RAID volume. Likely that's your issue. And, before you decide to break it into 2 RAID volumes, be aware the highly optimized and blazing fast performance is *only* on the first volume. Additional volumes are very slow. Its something 3ware doesn't advertise but will usually admit to if confronted. Brent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
