Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:36:01 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> Cc: Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist? Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0701120134520.13775@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <DC221724-7005-4525-9F71-B7D136B116FA@svcolo.com> References: <45A5FD8A.6080409@svcolo.com><2918081F-D376-410B-B6FD-42BDD3323575@svcolo.com><20070111213444.GB17185@zone3000.net><D0D0CE06-B991-4945-B12B-152BA930106B@svcolo.com><20070112005510.2e145462.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <669E8D5D-E286-42DC-800F-24D7DDB2469F@svcolo.com> <000901c735fc$d180ac10$3301a8c0@janmxp> <Pine.OSX.4.64.0701112302140.13775@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <FE0A4E4A-63B8-430F-9E35-65C2EE9BD0B1@svcolo.com> <Pine.OSX.4.64.0701120040130.13775@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <DC221724-7005-4525-9F71-B7D136B116FA@svcolo.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: >> >>>>>> Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on big fiber >>>>>> channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid controllers. >>>>> I'd be very surprised if you can't. You can certainly do it with Areca >>>>> (arcmsr(4)), HP (ciss(4)), IBM ServeRAID (ips(4)), although the details >>>>> vary. >>> >>> On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: >>>> I can confirm 3Ware controllers also work that way. >>> >>> Please enlighten me. I see no such options in the BIOS menu. >> >> I've done it in 3DM2, but look at pages 23+24 (printed page numbers) here >> and the stuff regarding setting up a seperate boot volume: >> >> http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/3ware9590SEUsrGuide.pdf > > Those are CLI functions. Which means you have to boot to run the CLI, so > cart->horse. The pages I mention are for the 3Ware BIOS, not tw_cli or 3DM2... I'm looking at the pdf and the screenshots are clearly from the 3Ware BIOS. Check it out... Charles > Sorry for being terse, but I have to solve the boot problem which is what > started this conversation. > > For data arrays not part of boot, I could simply use GPT and be done with it. > I only need small volumes to solve the boot problem. > > -- > Jo Rhett > senior geek > Silicon Valley Colocation > > > >
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