2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness

[Nick Evans]

 The card is a 9500-12 despite the driver saying otherwise. The array is
built at 2.7T through the 3ware bios. bsdlabel just refuses to accept a
label larger than 700-something gig.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Wiese
To: 'Nick Evans'; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: 9/1/04 8:12 PM
Subject: RE: 2.7 Terabyte array and bsdlabel on 5.3-BETA2 wierdness

> dmesg: 
> 
> 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, 
> version: 2.50.00.000
> twa0: <3ware 9000 series Storage Controller> port 
> 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfb800000-0xfbffffff,0xfe9ffc00-0xf

Pre-9500 controllers have a hardware limit of 2TB per RAID volume.
Likely
that's your issue.

And, before you decide to break it into 2 RAID volumes, be aware the
highly
optimized and blazing fast performance is *only* on the first volume.
Additional volumes are very slow. Its something 3ware doesn't advertise
but
will usually admit to if confronted.

Brent