Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:12:12 +0000 From: Ryan Merrick <sandshrimp@attbi.com> To: Darren Gamble <Darren.Gamble@sjrb.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD install fails on a DAC960 RAID array Message-ID: <3E78A4EC.9020700@attbi.com> References: <F2AC1E62AC3CBB49BB518BEA341532220DD008@shawmail02>
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Darren Gamble wrote: >Good day, > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ryan Merrick [mailto:sandshrimp@attbi.com] >>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 6:48 AM >>To: Darren Gamble >>Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>Subject: Re: FreeBSD install fails on a DAC960 RAID array >> >>Hello, >> >>It has been a while since I have seen a DAC960, but this problem was >>solved by setting the partition size to 2GIGs instead of 8GIGs in the >>RAID BIOS. >> >>-Ryan >> >> > >Thanks for your help! We'll give that a shot. > >Just so that I understand this situation a bit better... why does that solve >the problem? > >============================ >Darren Gamble >Planner, Regional Services >Shaw Cablesystems GP >630 - 3rd Avenue SW >Calgary, Alberta, Canada >T2P 4L4 >(403) 781-4948 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > I do not know, but I think that it has to do with the geometry of the logical drive. When I worked for HostPro all of our MicronPC servers came with DAC 960's. I used Freebsd for testing "bad" hardware. The MS servers that used the DAC 960 could boot from both partition sizes. Ryan Merrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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