From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 17:55:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB44C16A46F for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:55:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from elise.stf.rewt.org.uk (elise.stf.rewt.org.uk [82.152.108.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D1C43D60 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:54:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from [82.152.108.166] (im.a.raver.not.a.fucking.drug-addict.be [82.152.108.166]) (authenticated bits=0) by elise.stf.rewt.org.uk (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5CHsfxK029507 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:54:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Message-ID: <448DAA4C.2030107@joeholden.co.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:54:20 +0100 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <448B3E07.1090408@joeholden.co.uk> <20060612175242.GA16431@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060612175242.GA16431@odin.ac.hmc.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=13A6D1E7; url=http://www.joeholden.co.uk/pubkey.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigAF45206CE39C8539C073F748" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on elise.stf.rewt.org.uk Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI Logic Fibre Channel Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: joe@joeholden.co.uk List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:55:06 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigAF45206CE39C8539C073F748 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:47:51PM +0100, Joe Holden wrote: > =20 >> Hi Collective, >> I've recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto a >> machine, and attached a LSI Logic 919X FC Controller, after finally >> getting the card working, im having issues with GEOM. >> It's reporting a max size of 1tb, fdisk shows capacity as >> 999999MB(Basically it doesn't know). Everytime i press a key in >> sysinstall, it says my GEOM is incorrect. >> >> Any suggestions as how to go about getting the full 3.5TB? (I'm not >> familiar with SCSI) >> =20 > > With i386 and amd64, you will need to boot off of another volume in > order to use a volume larger than 2TB because the only supported > partition type is MS-DOS MBR which has a 2TB limit. (You're also > apparently running up against limits in sysinstall, but that's fairly > immaterial) To use the volume at all, you will either need to install a= > UFS file system on it directly or create a gpt partition table. > > -- Brooks > > =20 HI there, thanks for the reply, I ended up splitting it into two volumes, about half each, seems to have solved the problem! Thanks, Joe --------------enigAF45206CE39C8539C073F748 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEjapfdQJXshOm0ecRAlKeAKCKi+k7N2CdBmD3b1g47z1u1z0uxwCcDptC uXPxBYpVauvJpb2BW8d62wg= =w05k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigAF45206CE39C8539C073F748--