This email was released today due to the large size of the attachment .. my issue was resolved by using GPT.
Derrick Lobo -----Original Message----- From: port-amd64-ow...@netbsd.org [mailto:port-amd64-ow...@netbsd.org] On Behalf Of Derrick Lobo Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 2:52 PM To: Manuel Bouyer Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org; port-am...@netbsd.org Subject: RE: formating a large disk Sorry by errors I meant I don't get the required disk size.. I have attached pictures.. I tried using hardware raid and had the same issue. The bios and dmesg shows correct size however using fdisk gives me 1.4Tb only I also tried using GPT today and get the following error Operation not supported by device.. for /dev/dk1 I am on 6.1 and MAKEDEV does create /dev/dk* so maybe im missing a step I used the step in this url http://www.netbsd.org/~mishka/gptboot/howto.html to setup the disk using GPT Derrick Lobo -----Original Message----- From: Manuel Bouyer [mailto:bou...@antioche.eu.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 6:22 PM To: Derrick Lobo Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org; port-am...@netbsd.org Subject: Re: formating a large disk On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:41:40PM -0400, Derrick Lobo wrote: > I googled this and could not find a solution to netbsd. I have 2 x 2Tb > SATA disk that are setup as CCD and am trying to format the with newfs > and keep getting errors.. I can format a drive if the partition is > less than 2Tb however need more space.. what are the errors ? -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
