Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-30 Thread O. Hartmann
On 06/29/11 15:57, Joshua Boyd wrote: 2011/6/29 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de mailto:ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? Hi Oliver, Neither, unfortunately. The 1068E based

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/29/11 9:58 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported as 2TB disk only. I almost stopped reading at BIOS from 2007. You should definitely upgrade the BIOS before

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:58:02AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported as 2TB disk only. The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt).

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Boyd
2011/6/29 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? Hi Oliver, Neither, unfortunately. The 1068E based cards do not support drives over 2TB. See here: