RE: 3Ware 9650SE with 4 disk array

2008-01-22 Thread Doug Sampson
 Hi,
 
 We've received a server containing 3Ware 9650SE controller 
 with 4 ports and
 it comes with 4 WD7500AYYS drives with the following drive 
 parameters of LBA
 1465149168 (sectors?). I'm using FBSD 7.0 RC-1 which provides 
 the necessary
 drivers for that controller card. The array is created using RAID5.
 
 The problem arises when I fdisk the drive array. The 
 sysinstall installation
 routine complains that the  drive parameters provided by the BIOS is
 incorrect. When I ask to see the drive info using fdisk, I am 
 given the
 following information:
 
 # fdisk
 parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
 cylinders=273542 heads=255 sectors/tracks=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
 
 Media sector size is 512
 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
 Information from BIOS bootblock is:
 The data for partition 1 is:
 sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 88484871 (48576 Meg), flag 80 (active)
   beg:  cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
   end:  cyl 1023/ head 165/ sector 59
 The data for partition 2 is:
 UNUSED
 The data for partition 3 is:
 UNUSED
 The data for partition 4 is:
 UNUSED
 #
 
 I see that when I am finished setting up the drive array, I 
 am getting a
 much smaller use of the entire array. Using the Auto Defaults option
 inside bsdlabel, I end up with /dev/da0s1f (/usr) in the 
 range of 40 GB. I
 should be seeing something in the order of 2 TB.
 
 I've tried fdisking and bsdlabeling for 2 Tb to no avail 
 several times.
 
 What am I doing wrong?
 

Turns out the disk array had a partition set up for 2048 GB which FBSD 7.0
RC-1 doesn't support. Auto-carving the array to 2047 GB did the trick.
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3Ware 9650SE with 4 disk array

2008-01-16 Thread Doug Sampson
Hi,

We've received a server containing 3Ware 9650SE controller with 4 ports and
it comes with 4 WD7500AYYS drives with the following drive parameters of LBA
1465149168 (sectors?). I'm using FBSD 7.0 RC-1 which provides the necessary
drivers for that controller card. The array is created using RAID5.

The problem arises when I fdisk the drive array. The sysinstall installation
routine complains that the  drive parameters provided by the BIOS is
incorrect. When I ask to see the drive info using fdisk, I am given the
following information:

# fdisk
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=273542 heads=255 sectors/tracks=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from BIOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
   start 63, size 88484871 (48576 Meg), flag 80 (active)
  beg:  cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
  end:  cyl 1023/ head 165/ sector 59
The data for partition 2 is:
UNUSED
The data for partition 3 is:
UNUSED
The data for partition 4 is:
UNUSED
#

I see that when I am finished setting up the drive array, I am getting a
much smaller use of the entire array. Using the Auto Defaults option
inside bsdlabel, I end up with /dev/da0s1f (/usr) in the range of 40 GB. I
should be seeing something in the order of 2 TB.

I've tried fdisking and bsdlabeling for 2 Tb to no avail several times.

What am I doing wrong?

~Doug

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3Ware 9650SE with 4 disk array

2008-01-16 Thread Doug Sampson
Hi,

We've received a server containing 3Ware 9650SE controller with 4 ports and
it comes with 4 WD7500AYYS drives with the following drive parameters of LBA
1465149168 (sectors?). I'm using FBSD 7.0 RC-1 which provides the necessary
drivers for that controller card. The array is created using RAID5.

The problem arises when I fdisk the drive array. The sysinstall installation
routine complains that the  drive parameters provided by the BIOS is
incorrect. When I ask to see the drive info using fdisk, I am given the
following information:

# fdisk
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=273542 heads=255 sectors/tracks=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from BIOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
   start 63, size 88484871 (48576 Meg), flag 80 (active)
  beg:  cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
  end:  cyl 1023/ head 165/ sector 59
The data for partition 2 is:
UNUSED
The data for partition 3 is:
UNUSED
The data for partition 4 is:
UNUSED
#

I see that when I am finished setting up the drive array, I am getting a
much smaller use of the entire array. Using the Auto Defaults option
inside bsdlabel, I end up with /dev/da0s1f (/usr) in the range of 40 GB. I
should be seeing something in the order of 2 TB.

I've tried fdisking and bsdlabeling for 2 Tb to no avail several times.

What am I doing wrong?

~Doug
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