Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB

[Enrique Ayesta Perojo]

El Lunes, 11 de Junio de 2007 11:27, Andreas Rudisch escribió:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:13:04 +0200
>
> Enrique Ayesta Perojo <eayesta at portugalete.uned.es> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. This server has a P400
> > RAID controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. The RAID
> > controller is supported in FreeBSD through the ciss driver.
> >
> > The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2
> > Terabyte, then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it
> > cannot find the disk). If the array is smaller than 2 Terabytes then
> > there is no problem, the controller detects the disk and i can install
> > FreeBSD on it. I have tried with i386 and AMD64 versions (the server has
> > a Xeon processor supported by AMD64)
> >
> > Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger
> > than 2 TB?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> A quick google search revealed this:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html
>
>
> Andreas

Yes, i knew that page, but as it seems that the project has been forgotten for 
quite a long time i thought there could be some other way to do it..

Thanks anyway