From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 17:52:45 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 75C7816A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [204.107.90.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E51443D3F for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tuc@tucs-beachin-obx-house.com) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (ool-44c09852.dyn.optonline.net [68.192.152.82]) (authenticated bits=128)i520qiYT023150; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1])id i520qhod038254; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tuc@tucs-beachin-obx-house.com) Received: (from tucobx@localhost)i520qhXc038253; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tucobx) From: Tuc at Beach House Message-Id: <200406020052.i520qhXc038253@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:52:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20040602004318.GA73188@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at Jun 01, 2004 06:43:18 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 00:52:45 -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? > Fatal Error: Partitions are larger than actual chunk?? - PRESS ANY KEY TO QUIT Won't let me go any farther. Tuc