On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
To make this into a step-by-step, what do you mean by "restore
the MBR partition" ? From backup, or...?
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
Manually recreate, I guess. When creating a GPT, the MBR is replaced
b
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
To make this into a step-by-step, what do you mean by "restore the MBR
partition" ? From backup, or...?
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
Manually recreate, I guess. When creating a GPT, the MBR is replaced
by a PMBR. A PMBR is a MBR with a single partition
On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:49:38 -0800
Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is already possible for them to coexist. It's not uncommon in the
industry to use MBR partitions even though the disk has GPT. The
point is that you need to t
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:49:38 -0800
Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is already possible for them to coexist. It's not uncommon in the
> industry to use MBR partitions even though the disk has GPT. The
> point is that you need to tools to avoid making a mess. Ideally you
Apparently
On Jan 11, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
This feature is only available on 9550SX and 9590SE controllers,
and can
only be specified in 3BM.
Bing! Well, that confirms that I'm not blind :-)
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senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
Why not use 3BM (3Ware BIOS Manager) to setup the RAID. Create the
RAID with it, specify a boot volume, turn off autocarving, so it
creates two units (one smaller boot volume, and all the rest it a
large unit). Setp the smaller unit like normal (
Jason Thomson wrote:
Jo, if you manage to do this, could you possibly post a step-by-step
guide?
Absolutely. After trying to find this info, if I get it to work then
I'll make sure nobody else has to go through this.
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Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation
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Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
I just had a quick look at the 3ware website, and the closest I can see is a
9500S-8. Assuming that is correct, there is a firmware update, 9.3.0.4,
which has the following in the notes: "New Feature: Boot LUN". That might
be worth a try.
Sorry, you're right. And we hav
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Jason Thomson wrote:
Marcel, do you know if it is possible to do this without
destroying the
existing file systems?
In theory, yes. If you need or want to shuffle partitions or
repartition,
then it becomes a whole new game. Keeping existing partitions where t
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
Since we're going to be stuck with old BIOSes for a long time
after 2TB is a cheap disk drive at [store], is anyone considering
doing the work to make GPT co-exist with an MBR b
Jo Rhett wrote:
> Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> > Which controller, exactly, are you using?
>
> 9000-8S
I just had a quick look at the 3ware website, and the closest I can see is a
9500S-8. Assuming that is correct, there is a firmware update, 9.3.0.4,
which has the following in the notes: "New Featur
Jo Rhett wrote:
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
Since we're going to be stuck with old BIOSes for a long time after
2TB is a cheap disk drive at [store], is anyone considering doing the
work to make GPT co-exist with an MBR block?
It is already possi
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
Since we're going to be stuck with old BIOSes for a long time after
2TB is a cheap disk drive at [store], is anyone considering doing the
work to make GPT co-exist with an MBR block?
It is already possible for them to coex
Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
Jo Rhett wrote:
But that option doesn't exist in the 9000-series controllers :-( If
it existed in the 6000, they must have taken it out and then added it
back later.
Sorry, I was unclear. The option doesn't exist in the 6000 series
controllers, but rather you get to
On Thu, January 11, 2007 10:00 pm, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
> Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on
> big fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid
> controllers.
I'd be very surprised if you can't. You c
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:28:29PM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
> >
> >Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on
> >big fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid
> >>
On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
Since we're going to be stuck with old BIOSes for a long time after
2TB is a cheap disk drive at [store], is anyone considering doing
the work to make GPT co-exist with an MBR block?
It is already possible for them to coexist. It's not uncommon
Jo Rhett wrote:
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
I just had a look at that documentation. Not far before the referenced
pages it says to hit "ALT-3" to enter the BIOS configuration, and then
describes the procedure for creating a unit including creating a "boot
unit". No
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
I just had a look at that documentation. Not far before the
referenced pages it says to hit "ALT-3" to enter the BIOS
configuration, and then describes the procedure for creating a unit
including creating a "boot unit". No operating system
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
The pages I mention are for the 3Ware BIOS, not tw_cli or 3DM2...
I'm looking at the pdf and the screenshots are clearly from the
3Ware BIOS. Check it out...
Sorry, you're right I used the acrobat page numbers instead of the
printed o
Jo Rhett wrote:
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on big
fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid controllers.
I'd be very surprised if you can't. You can certainly
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on big fiber
channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid controllers.
I'd be very surprised if you can't
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on
big fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid
controllers.
I'd be very surprised if you can't. You can certainly do it
with Ar
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on big fiber
channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid controllers.
I'd be very surprised if you can't. You can certainly do it with Areca
(arcmsr(4)), HP (ciss(4)), IBM ServeRAID (ips(4)), alt
On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
I've got ancient AMI Megaraid controllers (Dell PERC 2/Si cards) that
can put multiple logical drives on one RAID set, so I'm surprised that
a modern controller can't.
Funny, that. I miss the old Megaraid controllers. They had features
that the
On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
For example, on an Areca 8 port controller, I have 8 disks in a
RAID-6 array, and within that "RAID set", I have three volumes.
The three volumes appear to FreeBSD as da0, da1 and da2, respectively.
CLI> rsf info
I would like to note that
Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on big
fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid controllers.
I'd be very surprised if you can't. You can certainly do it with
Areca (arcmsr(4)), HP (ciss(4)), IBM ServeRAID (ips(4)), although
the details vary.
On Jan 11
In the last episode (Jan 11), Jo Rhett said:
> >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800 Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive
> >>(550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1
> >>boot device, I'll lose 1TB of usa
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
Hi,
Jo Rhett wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800 Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive
(550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1
boot device, I'll lose 1T
Hi,
Jo Rhett wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800 Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive
(550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1
boot device, I'll lose 1TB of usable storage.
On Jan 11, 2007, at 3
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800 Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive
(550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1
boot device, I'll lose 1TB of usable storage.
On Jan 11, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Torfinn Ingolf
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800
Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive
> (550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1
> boot device, I'll lose 1TB of usable storage.
Hmm, why can't you just make your c
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive
(550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1
boot device, I'll lose 1TB of usable storage.
I just found the "auto carving" feature of the 3ware controller, and
we'll see how that works for my needs.
On Thursday, 11 January 2007 at 11:00:56 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote:
> I think I have a decent way to make the application deal with two 1.2
> TB filesystems. Obviously bsdlabel is limited to 2TB, but I should
> be able to mount a partition from the second slice.
>
> So how do I accomplish this?
I think I have a decent way to make the application deal with two 1.2
TB filesystems. Obviously bsdlabel is limited to 2TB, but I should
be able to mount a partition from the second slice.
So how do I accomplish this? Fdisk apparently won't make that second
slice that crosses the 2TB boun
Dimitry Andric wrote:
Jo Rhett wrote:
Sysinstall recognized the drive properly and everything looked dandy
during install. However, it turns out that fdisk and bsdlabel both just
chopped off the last partition at 248GB. (why 248gb and not 2tb?)
Wrapping around 2 TiB, probably.
Got any smar
On Thursday, 11 January 2007 at 15:35:25 +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 January 2007 at 1:04:10 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote:
> > So I have a raid array of 2.4TB. And yes, I really need 2.4TB, and no
> > there's no room for another set of disks to boot from.
> > /1g
> > /var 16g
> >
On Thursday, 11 January 2007 at 1:04:10 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote:
> So I have a raid array of 2.4TB. And yes, I really need 2.4TB, and no
> there's no room for another set of disks to boot from.
> /1g
> /var 16g
> /big **everything else
>
> Sysinstall recognized the drive properly and everythi
Jo Rhett wrote:
> Sysinstall recognized the drive properly and everything looked dandy
> during install. However, it turns out that fdisk and bsdlabel both just
> chopped off the last partition at 248GB. (why 248gb and not 2tb?)
Wrapping around 2 TiB, probably.
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So I have a raid array of 2.4TB. And yes, I really need 2.4TB, and no
there's no room for another set of disks to boot from.
/1g
/var 16g
/big **everything else
Sysinstall recognized the drive properly and everything looked dandy
during install. However, it turns out that fdisk and bsdlab
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