Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

[Göran Nilsson]

I have come a bit further. It seems that if I create a 2TB drive it all goes
good. But it doesn't seems to work when doing a large 5TB drive.
Is there some limitations on fdisk, and the size on partitions? Can't it
exceed 2TB? The machine is a ordinary Core 2 duo 6750 with 4GB of ram.

/Regards Goran

On Dec 13, 2007 5:39 PM, Göran Nilsson <goran.nilsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the controller there it says that it supports freebsd 6.1. And yes
> there is documentation on how to install freebsd 6.1 on the raid.
> But for now i have installed freebsd on a RAID1 system, and i have problem
> getting the card detcted, i run a 5TB RAID 6 on this card.
> Didn't thought that it could be that much differens between version 6.1and
> 6.2. Gonna try to reinstall. After the reinstall i got the card up and
> running. I see it get detected and it all looks ok. I go in and do a fdisk
> on the drive and label/mount it. I do all this in sysinstall.
> I can see that the drive is 4648GB so it all looks ok with the RAID 6
> Drive.
> When i later quit sysinstall and check the mounts i see that the drive
> space is 532GB and available space is 500GB. This looks totally wrong. Is
> there any limitations that im not aware of?
>
> /Goran
>
>   On Dec 13, 2007 1:10 AM, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
>
> >  On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:35:09PM +0100, Göran Nilsson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a problem getting my EX12350 Radicontroller to work under
> > FreeBSD 6.2.
> > > When i start the computer or rund a dmesg i can see that
> > > "mass storage raid ..no driver attached"
> > > For what i can see this card should be supported under FreeBSD 6.1,
> > but
> > > could it be soo that the support is missing in 6.2? Any tips?
> > > Should i try to go for the 6.3 RC1. I really need this card up and
> > running,
> > > i run it as a RAID 6. I have tried this with just the generic kernel,
> > > So the most should be in there?
> > >
> > > Ideas, is most appriciating, coz im kinda stuck.
> > >
> >
> >
> > What makes you think this card is supported by FreeBSD 6.1?
> >
> > As far as I can tell there is no driver for that card included with any
> > FreeBSD release.  If it was supported the driver would have been
> > included in
> > GENERIC kernel, and if was supported in 6.1 it would have been in 6.2also.
> >
> >
> > It is quite possible however that Promise provides their own FreeBSD
> > driver
> > for that card.  If that is the case you should ask Promise which
> > version(s)
> > of FreeBSD the driver supports and how to install it - or read their
> > documentation where such information can likely be found.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> > Erik Trulsson
> > ertr1013 at student.uu.se
> >
>
>