RocketRAID 2224

Nikolas Britton nikolas.britton at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 16:13:46 UTC 2006


On 8/25/06, Dave Kingsley <david.kingsley at enc.edu> wrote:
> I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a
> storage server.  The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D
> 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM.
> When I set up a RAID5 with 7 750GB drives I get nothing but wierdness.
> Using sysinstall -> Configure -> Fdisk I can see the full size:
> DISK Geometry:  547149 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8789948685 sectors
> (4291967MB)
>
> But Label sees:
> Disk: da0       Partition name: da0s1   Free: 200014030 blocks (97663MB)
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. Sysinstall can't handle disks that big. There is a 2TB soft
limit. UFS2 can support disks up to 8 ZettaBytes (8,589,934,592
TeraBytes) but some of the software tools have not been converted yet,
see here: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html



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