From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 17:43:19 2004 Return-Path: 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 B140816A4CF for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210B543D3F for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i520hIui073211; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:43:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5/Submit) id i520hI6L073210; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:43:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:43:18 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Tuc at Beach House Message-ID: <20040602004318.GA73188@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20040601234010.GA72828@panzer.kdm.org> <200406012353.i51NrOZj069823@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406012353.i51NrOZj069823@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org cc: Tuc at Beach House Subject: Re: 1TB issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:43:19 -0000 On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 19:53:24 -0400, Tuc at Beach House wrote: > > > What can I do to get this configured properly? It seems that if I > > > bring it down to RAID-1+0, it configures up fine (Not sure what the > > > geometry shows as, sorry). > > > > See another recent message on this list from Brooks Davis. It sounds like > > sysinstall has issues with large arrays in -current, but fdisk works okay. > > > > Try doing your installation on a smaller fdisk partition within sysinstall, > > and then once you're installed, use the command line fdisk to create > > another slice and use up the rest of the array. > > > This is a 2nd drive, so its ok. I already have 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 > installed on /dev/da1. > > If I just do : > > vjofn2# fdisk da0 > ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=135154 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=135154 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 2171248947 (1060180 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 > The data for partition 2 is: > > The data for partition 3 is: > > The data for partition 4 is: > > > > So what config to command line fdisk should I use? > > p 1 0 0 0 > p 1 165 1 2171249010 > It looks like you may already have a partition there...it looks like it's about 1TB. Do things work when you attempt to disklabel it? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org