Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)

2010-04-04 Thread John
Hi, In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free version. Here are the OSes I tried: FreeBSD 8 FreeBSD 9 NetBSD 5.0.2 CentOS Ubuntu 9.10

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)

2010-04-04 Thread pluknet
On 4 April 2010 19:33, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free version. Here are the

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-04-01 Thread John
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:56:06AM +0100, krad wrote: we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. I configured the disks as JBOD but got the same results. I think the

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-04-01 Thread krad
On 1 April 2010 14:58, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:56:06AM +0100, krad wrote: we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. I

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-31 Thread krad
On 31 March 2010 02:13, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-30 Thread John
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:37:58PM +, Varan Okul wrote: Hi, I suggest you try these scenario first. 1st - At RAID controller BIOS. Create 1 small logical drive for FreeBSD installation. The rest space from RAID0, just create 2TB for each logical drive.

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the

freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread John
Hello list I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server. Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on the SATA card (raid0 gives about 5.4Tb) but freebsd, after sysinstall loads

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello list I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server. Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size TB. AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more hands on

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread krad
On 29 March 2010 15:39, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-29 Thread John
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:57:08PM +0100, krad wrote: I think his problem is he cant see a device to partition in the first place? This is correct. -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5