FreeBSD 6.1 and RAID controller PERC 5/i in DELL PowerEdge 2950

[Erik Trulsson]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:27:00PM -0600, Marthias, Santosso wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
>  
> 
> We have DELL PowerEdge 2950 with RAID controller PERC 5/i and 6 Fujitsu
> 73GB SAS disks.
> 
> We created 3 RAID-1 virtual disks out of the 6 disks :
> 
>             VD0 = RAID-1 using disk0 and disk1
> 
>             VD1 = RAID-1 using disk2 and disk3
> 
>             VD2 = RAID-1 using disk4 and disk5
> 
>  
> 
> After that we installed FreeBSD 6.1. 
> 
> The FreeBSD 6.1 OS went to the first virtual disk (shown as mfid0 in
> sysinstall), we choose standard for "Install Boot Manager".
> 
> The other 2 virtual disks we're using for data partition (entire mfid1
> mount as /data and entire mfid2 mount as /data/app), we choose none for
> "Install Boot Manager".
> 
>  
> 
> The installation completed with no error. 
> 
> However, once the server in boot process, it shows error for
> /dev/mfid0s1a and require fsck on it. We tried to fsck but it failed.
> And looks like at this point the OS has corrupted.
> 
>  
> 
> One thing is working, if we only use mfid0 for OS installation and leave
> (not use at all) mfid1 and mfid2, then the server rebooted fine after
> the OS installation (we get the login prompt).
> 
> The problem is we want to have mfid0 for OS, mfid1 for /data, and mfid2
> for /data/app separated from each other and not together in one big
> virtual disk.
> 
>  
> 
> Anybody know about this issue? Any suggestion?
> 


There have been several bug fixes and improvements made to the mfi(4) driver
since 6.1 was released, including one that is supposed to fix problems with
multiple volumes.

I would suggest trying the latest 6.2-BETA and see if that works better. (It
probably will.)



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Erik Trulsson
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