Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-25 Thread Marco Peereboom
Or use the BIOS to initialize the logical disk. On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:32:38AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > On 26/10/2005, at 12:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >jon and marco, > > > >thx for the quick replies. this is more or less what i expected. > > > >if you

Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-25 Thread David Gwynne
On 26/10/2005, at 12:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jon and marco, thx for the quick replies. this is more or less what i expected. if you install through the RAID controller, shouldn't it autodetect the number of actually available sectors (i.e. the "full" size modulo

Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-25 Thread dick
jon and marco, thx for the quick replies. this is more or less what i expected. if you install through the RAID controller, shouldn't it autodetect the number of actually available sectors (i.e. the "full" size modulo that required for the RAID info)? that's the thing that really surprised me.

Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
dlg and I had a look at this and we concur with Jon. You can move a single disk RAID 0 from behind the ami controller and use it as a single disk. What you can't do is going the other way around (from SATA controller to RAID 0). After reading your email we gathered it is what you did. Can you pl

Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
I'll look into this. Thanks for the useful report. On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:38:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > heya, > > i got an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X a couple weeks ago and i > noticed it was not quite "behaving". by this i mean that i had > a 200GB disk on which i had installed a

Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-24 Thread Jon Simola
On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i got an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X a couple weeks ago and i > noticed it was not quite "behaving". I've not had any problems with mine, yet. > ami0: out of bounds 390,716,864 - 1 >= 388,671,488 > > so apparently the controller did not gr

RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-24 Thread dick
heya, i got an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X a couple weeks ago and i noticed it was not quite "behaving". by this i mean that i had a 200GB disk on which i had installed a 3.8 snapshot and i plugged it into the RAID controller and booted the machine. it loaded the kernel just fine, but when it came ti