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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:01:52 +0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
To:        "Raphael H. Becker" <rabe@p-i-n.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Subject:   Re: Accessing SCSI-Devices >2TB
Message-ID:  <20050608150152.GA49080@frontfree.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050608160837.E41471@p-i-n.com>
References:  <20050608122324.C41471@p-i-n.com> <42A6D850.2070603@centtech.com> <20050608160837.E41471@p-i-n.com>

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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:08:37PM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:36:48AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> > > I tried to attach our new external RAID to my RENEG_5_4 box today usi=
ng
> > > one logical drive of about 2326GB.=20
> > >=20
> > > The RAID was preconfigured with two 50% partitions which were assigne=
d=20
> > > to two LUNs. FreeBSD 5.4 was able to detect those as da1 and da2 with=
=20
> > > full capacity.=20
[...]
> Any idea, how to get 2620354MB in one filesystem (using the two ccd'ed
> partitions of the RAID)?
>=20
> Well, I'm pretty trained in configuring that RAID now so if anyone knows=
=20
> a solution, how to get rid of the 2TB-Limit for one drive (/dev/da1),
> maybe using larger blocks of about 1k or 2k, I just need to configure
> that RAID as a single large logical drive.=20
>=20
> Just tell me about the blocksizes (see other mail).

Err...  You don't need to play with the drivers/CAM stuff, why not try the
natively supported gpt(8), which works great.

	- Map the RAID device to a single SCSI device
	- Do a dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/da0 bs=3D16384 count=3D16 to wipe the M=
BR
	- Do a `gpt create /dev/da0' to create your GPT partition table
	- Do a `gpt add /dev/da0' to create a GPT partition over it
	- You will now see something like /dev/da0p1, which can be used for
	  subsequent disklabel(8), or just newfs -U /dev/da0p1

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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