Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB
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 cards do not support drives over 2TB. See here: http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16399.aspx -- Joshua Boyd E-mail: boy...@jbip.net mailto:boy...@jbip.net http://www.jbip.net Hello Joshua. Thanks for the fast response. Yes, you're right. I revealed by several postings in the net that the controller in question is not capable of handling disks 2TB. It's a pitty. Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB
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 barging in and saying you've got a problem ;) The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition. I tried the 3 TB harddrive on a FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT box with Intel ICH10R SATA chipset and it worked fine, was reported as 2.7TB drive as expected. Was the drive handled by mpt too, or by mps ? I found some postings concerning mptutil not dealing with HD 2TB, but this issue seems not to be a tool-issue. Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? Let's see you update the firmware and tell us ;) b) regarding to a), how can I update the BIOS/MPT firmware of the Dell PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I said, the firmware is quite old, it's from 2007. Usually, this is done using dell's ISO image. You can either do that directly in front of the server, or remotely with dell's DRAC and by using virtual media. Keep in mind that virtual media might or might not be supported by your DRAC firmware version. If you can't use the virtual media, you may also boot dell's ISO via PXE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB
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). The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition. I tried the 3 TB harddrive on a FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT box with Intel ICH10R SATA chipset and it worked fine, was reported as 2.7TB drive as expected. I found some postings concerning mptutil not dealing with HD 2TB, but this issue seems not to be a tool-issue. Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? b) regarding to a), how can I update the BIOS/MPT firmware of the Dell PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I said, the firmware is quite old, it's from 2007. The answer is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/147572 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB
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: http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16399.aspx -- Joshua Boyd E-mail: boy...@jbip.net http://www.jbip.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
