ibm x345 w/ serveraid-5i + freebsd ips driver dramas

[Nate Lawson]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andrew Snow wrote:
> >>So I tested a few alternate geometries instead and even though there
> >>were no error messages, it seemed to get reset to what FreeBSD was
> >>reporting, no matter how many ways I tried to use the fdisk utility.
>
> > This is not the driver's fault but fdisk's.  I really hate FreeBSD's fdisk
> > and do not ever use it.
>
> Oh, ok... can you suggest a reasonable work around?
>
> Thanks.

Use Linux's fdisk.  With FreeBSD's, even if I just change the type of a
partition, the whole thing is rewritten (with bogus geometry).

Or don't worry about it.  It works fine and it's not like you want drive
portability to different controllers if you're using hardware RAID.

-Nate