Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:40:10 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Tuc at Beach House <tuc@tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1TB issue Message-ID: <20040601234010.GA72828@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200406012304.i51N4pV4013286@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> References: <200406012304.i51N4pV4013286@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 19:04:51 -0400, Tuc at Beach House wrote: > Hi, > > Having a SCSI Geometry issue on a 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 system. It has > a Symbios SDMS PCI SCSI, 53C1010-66 adapter that shows up as : > > sym0: <1010-66> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xf6000000-0xf6001fff,0xf6800000-0xf68003 > ff irq 25 at device 5.0 on pci1 > sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-80, LVD, parity checking > sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM > sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. > sym0: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS. > > And to it I'm connecting an EasyRaid II RAID box. There is LITTLE > I can configure on it, basically termination, SCSI ID, and Raid 0/1/0+1/3/5 > and thats pretty much it. > > When the system boots, the splash screen claims the geometry is > 1024/255/63 at 40M sync, and 16 wide. In the controller I've used > "Alternate CHS Mapping" and "SCSI Plug and Play Mapping" without any > differences. > > When FreeBSD boots, it sees : > > (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered. > da0 at sym1 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 > da0: <easyRAID II > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da0: 1060184MB (2171256832 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 135154C) > > > When I try to /stand/sysinstall it, fdisk pitches a serious fit about > it. > > 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. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org
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