From GhostSniper007 at hotmail.com Sun Oct 5 01:13:12 2008 From: GhostSniper007 at hotmail.com (Anthony L) Date: Sun Oct 5 01:13:19 2008 Subject: HP ProLiant DL120 G5 Server Message-ID: Hello, Should watch out for anything regarding FreeBSD 7.0 on the HP ProLiant DL120 G5 Server ? I'll likely be putting in 4x 1GB sticks of RAM and 2x 500GB SATA drives. (It will be a LAMP server with GMirror) Also, are any of the CPU types HP carries incompatible with FreeBSD ? I see they have a large choice of quad,dual, xeon, etc... Thank you From kama at pvp.se Tue Oct 7 08:05:33 2008 From: kama at pvp.se (kama) Date: Tue Oct 7 08:05:40 2008 Subject: HP ProLiant DL120 G5 Server In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20081007092128.N8907@ns1.as.pvp.se> On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Anthony L wrote: > Hello, > > Should watch out for anything regarding FreeBSD 7.0 on the HP ProLiant DL120 > G5 Server ? > > I'll likely be putting in 4x 1GB sticks of RAM and 2x 500GB SATA drives. > > (It will be a LAMP server with GMirror) > > Also, are any of the CPU types HP carries incompatible with FreeBSD ? I see > they have a large choice of quad,dual, xeon, etc... If the array card is ciss, i dont think there will be any problem. I have not used FreeBSD on DL120. But I have never had any real Proliant specific problems with FreeBSD on any of the DL380 revisions (R1, G2-G5) with SA-cards 5300, 6400, P400 and P800. If you dont need to run x86 specificly, try amd64. So when you need to, you can update the memory without any hassle. I run amd64 of FreeBSD 7.1-PR on a dual quadcore intel setup with 16GB of RAM. If you run BSD wouldnt it be a BAMP instead of a LAMP? /Bjorn From duongchithien at yahoo.com Wed Oct 29 17:02:31 2008 From: duongchithien at yahoo.com (Thien Duong) Date: Wed Oct 29 17:11:05 2008 Subject: HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7 Message-ID: <189550.5774.qm@web65714.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Hi All, I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart Array E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA 1TB. The problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss driver). The error messge: No Disk Found. Could anyone help? Thanks, Thien Duong From ulf at Alameda.net Wed Oct 29 17:17:00 2008 From: ulf at Alameda.net (Ulf Zimmermann) Date: Wed Oct 29 17:17:06 2008 Subject: HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7 In-Reply-To: <189550.5774.qm@web65714.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> References: <189550.5774.qm@web65714.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20081029171654.GF85350@evil.alameda.net> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:35:49AM -0700, Thien Duong wrote: > Hi All, > I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart Array > E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA 1TB. The > problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss > driver). The error messge: No Disk Found. Did you create a logical drive inside of the raid? What size did you make that logical volume? -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html From duongchithien at yahoo.com Wed Oct 29 17:40:12 2008 From: duongchithien at yahoo.com (dct) Date: Wed Oct 29 17:46:33 2008 Subject: HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7 Message-ID: <20231792.post@talk.nabble.com> Hi All, I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart Array E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA 1TB. The problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss driver). The error messge: No Disk Found. Could anyone help? Thanks, dct -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HP-ML350-G5-RAID5-and-freeBSD-7-tp20231792p20231792.html Sent from the freebsd-proliant mailing list archive at Nabble.com. From bmcgonigle at about.com Wed Oct 29 18:31:02 2008 From: bmcgonigle at about.com (Brian McGonigle) Date: Wed Oct 29 18:31:08 2008 Subject: HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7 In-Reply-To: <20231792.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <20231792.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:22 PM, dct wrote: > > Hi All, > I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart > Array > E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA > 1TB. The > problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss > driver). The error messge: No Disk Found. > > Could anyone help? > > Thanks, > dct > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HP-ML350-G5-RAID5-and-freeBSD-7-tp20231792p20231792.html > Sent from the freebsd-proliant mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " If you have six 1TB drives, try making a few 1TB RAID1's. I had trouble getting FreeBSD to see large disks like that on a DL320s. I made a 8TB RAID6 and it wouldn't see it, but it saw a 1TB RAID1 just fine. From david at sitevision.dk Thu Oct 30 08:46:19 2008 From: david at sitevision.dk (David) Date: Thu Oct 30 08:46:26 2008 Subject: HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7 In-Reply-To: <189550.5774.qm@web65714.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> References: <189550.5774.qm@web65714.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <490971A7.8020209@sitevision.dk> Thien Duong wrote: > Hi All, I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The > Smart Array E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for > 6xSATA 1TB. The problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual > disk (using cciss driver). The error messge: No Disk Found. I had a similair problem on a DL320s (Smart Array P400) with 6x750gb disks, The FreeBSD 7.0 installer could not find logical disks larger than 2 TB. From martinbadie at yahoo.com Thu Oct 30 09:59:19 2008 From: martinbadie at yahoo.com (Martin Badie) Date: Thu Oct 30 09:59:26 2008 Subject: HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7 Message-ID: <840667.16284.qm@web59910.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Hi, Here are my findings about this issue: 1) ML350 G5 uses PC BIOS not EFI Bios so **hardware** doesn't allow to boot from disks > 2 TB ( http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14271) 2) cciss driver with freebsd 7 and freebsd 6.3 can't see virtual disks larger that 2 TB you must use http://yogurt.org/FreeBSD/ciss_large.diff patch to see vdisk > 2TB 3) Your / must be in vdisk < 2TB So here is my solution: (for freebsd 6.3 and 7.0) 1) Use 2 RAID on E200i first is RAID0 (that has size less than 2 TB) and create another RAID as RAID5 2) After installation you will not see second raid5 on freebsd 6.3 and 7.0. You will see following errors on dmesg output: (da1:ciss0:0:1:0): got CAM status 0x4 (da1:ciss0:0:1:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device (da1:ciss0:0:1:0): lost device (da1:ciss0:0:1:0): removing device entry 3) Compile a kernel with that patch (http://yogurt.org/FreeBSD/ciss_large.diff ) and reboot 4) After rebooting in to new patched kernel you can see RAID5 (>2TB) 5) Format RAID5 with using GPT as follows: # gpt show /dev/da1 # gpt create -f /dev/da1 # gpt add /dev/da1 # gpt show /dev/da1 # newfs /dev/da1p1 That's it.. PS: I have used 7.1 BETA2 and saw that it can see whole disks ( > 2 TB) with sysinstall but since ML350 G5 doesn't support EFI boot (hardware) we can't boot it after installation. And here is my question "Does sysinstall support GPT instead of PC BIOS on installation?" That I don't know.. Regards. From duongchithien at yahoo.com Thu Oct 30 10:57:13 2008 From: duongchithien at yahoo.com (dct) Date: Thu Oct 30 13:24:43 2008 Subject: HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7 In-Reply-To: References: <20231792.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: <20252137.post@talk.nabble.com> Thanks Brian for reply, FreeBSD 7.1 partially solves the problem. During the installation, it could recognize the RAID5 virtual disk with the correct size of ~5TB. So installation seems ok. But another problem, after installation done, login as root, issue "df -g" to check the drive, it says 517 GB (expected is 5TB) ??? Looking for further help for our community. DCT Brian McGonigle wrote: > > > On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:22 PM, dct wrote: > >> >> Hi All, >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart >> Array >> E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA >> 1TB. The >> problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss >> driver). The error messge: No Disk Found. >> >> Could anyone help? >> >> Thanks, >> dct >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/HP-ML350-G5-RAID5-and-freeBSD-7-tp20231792p20231792.html >> Sent from the freebsd-proliant mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " > > If you have six 1TB drives, try making a few 1TB RAID1's. I had > trouble getting FreeBSD to see large disks like that on a DL320s. I > made a 8TB RAID6 and it wouldn't see it, but it saw a 1TB RAID1 just > fine. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HP-ML350-G5-RAID5-and-freeBSD-7-tp20231792p20252137.html Sent from the freebsd-proliant mailing list archive at Nabble.com.