Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:25:15 -0500 From: Paul <bsdlist@cogeco.ca> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with s5000PAUl using a SRCS16 in Raid 5 with 5 * 500gig drives Message-ID: <20070129172519.DB40C88DF@fep9.cogeco.net>
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Hello, I have been having troubles installing the amd64 platform on an Intel S5000pal system with the SRCS16 Raid controller using Raid 5 with 5 * 500gig drives. In order to get it to install I had to split the raid setup into two logical arrays. I guess it was too close to the 2TB limit as it was giving me read sector error when booting. However I now have it booting but it gets stuck at the Attempting to mount / (the root partition). This goes on for like 20 minutes and then it finally proceeds. This seems odd and clearly is a problem to mount the small / root partition that is only a few gigs big. Does anyone have an idea what is going on here? I also noticed it with adding a user it added the user but got stuck for like 10 minutes before proceeding. This system has 16GIG of ram using the amd64 platform and has 2 dual core cps running. I installed the centos just to see if there were any problems with this operating system (in case this was hardware related) but it worked 100% without any fuss. The problem is I want to use Freebsd :) So I do not believe this is hardware related. If anyone reading this has set up a S5000PAL system can they let me know what settings they used to have a successful installation? Thanks Paul
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