Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:04:56 +0800 From: Jahilliya <jahilliya@gmail.com> To: "Ensel Sharon" <user@dhp.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation Message-ID: <ba5e78ea0606181804x52fbaf78g23e149543261fe93@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0606182053310.12027-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <ba5e78ea0606181739g32d1e65fs16781abe2efbd249@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0606182053310.12027-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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> Ok, aac is in the dmesg. > > I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - > there are just no drives listed in dmesg. > > My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any > problems with that ? Perhaps sysinstall cannot deal with a >2TB drive > ? There are no other drives in the system besides the single 2.8TB raid 6 > array ... > Have you got any other drives you can attach to the raid? If so, disconnect the 8 drives connected, connect up a couple that are not part of the raid and configure them as a simple raid 1 and see if the installers sees that raid. Or try any combination in drives to bring the raid size down below 2TB (I'm sure this limitation has been fixed.)
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