Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Brandon Tanner
Joel, Would the fact that my two 3TB drives (ST3000DM001) use 4k sectors be the reason I wasn't getting it working then? I will try to zero the drives and start from scratch again, and see if that works too. I had a feeling that deleting the disklabels with 'z' option wasn't actually getting

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: Joel, Would the fact that my two 3TB drives (ST3000DM001) use 4k sectors be the reason I wasn't getting it working then? Both of the drives in the dmesg you posted report 512-byte sectors. Ken I will try to zero the

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Robert
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:35:29 -0500 Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: Joel, Would the fact that my two 3TB drives (ST3000DM001) use 4k sectors be the reason I wasn't getting it working then? Both of the

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 07:54:07PM +0100, Robert wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:35:29 -0500 Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: Joel, Would the fact that my two 3TB drives (ST3000DM001) use 4k sectors be

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/13 00:34, Joel Sing wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Brandon Tanner wrote: ... OpenBSD area: 64-5860533168; size: 2.7T; free: 0.0T #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2.7T 64RAID c: 2.7T0 unused

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Alexander Hall
On 03/03/13 20:17, Nick Holland wrote: On 03/03/13 00:34, Joel Sing wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Brandon Tanner wrote: ... OpenBSD area: 64-5860533168; size: 2.7T; free: 0.0T #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2.7T 64RAID c:

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 07:54:07PM +0100, Robert wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:35:29 -0500 Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: Joel, Would the fact that my two 3TB drives (ST3000DM001) use 4k sectors be the

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Brandon Tanner
I got it working!!! What Joel said was key. I had probably done it wrong the first time (didn't use the b option in disklabel), and everytime I re-tried it after that, I wasn't starting from scratch (zero'ing the two raid drives). So I booted the SeaTools for DOS CD, and zero'ed the two 3TB

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-02 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:18:09PM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: Anyone else having trouble getting bioctl to see more than 2TB when creating softraid0? I've got 2 x 3TB drives, BIOS sees them fine. dmesg on bootup: sd1 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: ATA, ST3000DM001-1CH1, CC24 SCSI3 0/direct

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-02 Thread Brandon Tanner
By the way, does softraid on amd64 support 4096 bytes per sector? On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:18:09PM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: Anyone else having trouble getting bioctl to see more than 2TB when creating

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-02 Thread Brad Smith
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:25:18PM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: By the way, does softraid on amd64 support 4096 bytes per sector? No matter what the architecture is softraid to date does not support devices with anything other than 512 bytes/sector. -- This message has been scanned for viruses

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-02 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:25:18PM -0600, Brandon Tanner wrote: By the way, does softraid on amd64 support 4096 bytes per sector? I don't think so, but I haven't refreshed my memory of that recently. Ken On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-02 Thread Joel Sing
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Brandon Tanner wrote: Anyone else having trouble getting bioctl to see more than 2TB when creating softraid0? I've got 2 x 3TB drives, BIOS sees them fine. dmesg on bootup: sd1 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: ATA, ST3000DM001-1CH1, CC24 SCSI3 0/direct fixed

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-02 Thread Joel Sing
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Brandon Tanner wrote: By the way, does softraid on amd64 support 4096 bytes per sector? No. There is a large amount of work required to fix this since everything in softraid was originally designed around 512-byte blocks. It is somewhere on my TODO list, however I do not