3Ware 9650SE with 4 disk array
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: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: # 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? ~Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
3Ware 9650SE with 4 disk array
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: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: # 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? ~Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: 3Ware 9650SE with 4 disk array
> 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: > > The data for partition 3 is: > > The data for partition 4 is: > > # > > 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
