From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 18:43:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6067916A403 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:43:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C8543D5A for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:42:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-29-241.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.29.241]:53390 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GdABp-0001Sc-3T for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:42:57 +0200 Received: (qmail 24239 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2006 20:42:49 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 26 Oct 2006 20:42:49 +0200 Received: (qmail 19811 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Oct 2006 20:42:49 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:42:49 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Marthias, Santosso" Message-ID: <20061026184249.GA19794@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Marthias, Santosso" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5FD48E0A25949A4EA7A60BA7856A06B1B07289@ex01-thn.office.epsiloninteractive.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5FD48E0A25949A4EA7A60BA7856A06B1B07289@ex01-thn.office.epsiloninteractive.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GdABp-0001Sc-3T. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GdABp-0001Sc-3T b1ab7eb09349bdce9d22f1909180adc6 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 and RAID controller PERC 5/i in DELL PowerEdge 2950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:43:00 -0000 On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:27:00PM -0600, Marthias, Santosso wrote: > Hello All, > > > > We have DELL PowerEdge 2950 with RAID controller PERC 5/i and 6 Fujitsu > 73GB SAS disks. > > We created 3 RAID-1 virtual disks out of the 6 disks : > > VD0 = RAID-1 using disk0 and disk1 > > VD1 = RAID-1 using disk2 and disk3 > > VD2 = RAID-1 using disk4 and disk5 > > > > After that we installed FreeBSD 6.1. > > The FreeBSD 6.1 OS went to the first virtual disk (shown as mfid0 in > sysinstall), we choose standard for "Install Boot Manager". > > The other 2 virtual disks we're using for data partition (entire mfid1 > mount as /data and entire mfid2 mount as /data/app), we choose none for > "Install Boot Manager". > > > > The installation completed with no error. > > However, once the server in boot process, it shows error for > /dev/mfid0s1a and require fsck on it. We tried to fsck but it failed. > And looks like at this point the OS has corrupted. > > > > One thing is working, if we only use mfid0 for OS installation and leave > (not use at all) mfid1 and mfid2, then the server rebooted fine after > the OS installation (we get the login prompt). > > The problem is we want to have mfid0 for OS, mfid1 for /data, and mfid2 > for /data/app separated from each other and not together in one big > virtual disk. > > > > Anybody know about this issue? Any suggestion? > There have been several bug fixes and improvements made to the mfi(4) driver since 6.1 was released, including one that is supposed to fix problems with multiple volumes. I would suggest trying the latest 6.2-BETA and see if that works better. (It probably will.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se