From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 08:33:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B928D1065678 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:33:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AF38FC14 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 1kYn1h0020FhH24A4kZuUG; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:33:54 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 1ka01h0111t3BNj8Uka1t5; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:34:01 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DE31102C19; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:33:55 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20110629083355.GA72679@icarus.home.lan> References: <4E0ADB0A.2070409@zedat.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E0ADB0A.2070409@zedat.fu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:33:57 -0000 On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:58:02AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 > TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is > reported as 2TB disk only. > > The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). > The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition. > > I tried the 3 TB harddrive on a FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT box with Intel > ICH10R SATA chipset and it worked fine, was reported as 2.7TB drive > as expected. > > I found some postings concerning mptutil not dealing with HD > 2TB, > but this issue seems not to be a tool-issue. > > Questions: > a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS > issue which can be solved? > > b) regarding to a), how can I update the BIOS/MPT firmware of the > Dell PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I > said, the firmware is quite old, it's from 2007. The answer is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/147572 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |