Unable to see drive greater than 2TB under FreeBSD 5.3

henry henry at jot.to
Mon Nov 8 09:40:30 PST 2004


I have recently been asked to attach a ~5TB external raid array to a FreeBSD
machine.  On attaching it, FreeBSD claims it is only ~1TB in size.

I have tried (in no particular order): rebooting, changing the SCSI card
geometry munging option (does this do anything??), creating a partition
using fdisk and gpt which covered the entirety of the disk, all to no avail.

To my naïve eyes it seems the mpt driver is not aware of "extended
translation" however I cannot see where to fix this in the driver, or have
any confidence in this guess!

Can someone tell me where to look next?

Thanks

Henry

Details follow:

OS: FreeBSD 5.3-RC2

The relevant hardware specs:
	Raid array: Transtec 6100 with 16 400GB SATA drives and SCSI-3
output see:
http://www.transtec.co.uk/GB/E/products/diskstorage/transtecPremiumRAIDs/tra
nstec6100SATA-RAID.html

	Raid array config: I have created a single Raid-5

	SCSI card: LSI Logic LSI21320-R 64-bit PCI-X Ultra320 SCSI
Dual-Channel Host Bus Adapter
http://www.lsilogic.com/products/ultra320_host_bus_adapters/lsi21320.html


Snippets from relevant commands:
# dmesg
...
mpt1: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem
0xfeb80000-0xfeb9ffff,0xfeba0000-0xfebbffff irq 25 at device 1.1 on pci1
...
da0 at mpt1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <transtec T6100S16R1 334B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
Enabled
da0: 1143799MB (2342500352 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 145813C)
...
# camcontrol devlist -v
...
scbus1 on mpt1 bus 0:
<transtec T6100S16R1 334B>         at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da0)
<  >                               at scbus1 target -1 lun -1 ()
...



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