1TB issue

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 19:04:51 -0400, Tuc at Beach House wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>         Having a SCSI Geometry issue on a 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 system. It has
> a Symbios SDMS PCI SCSI, 53C1010-66 adapter that shows up as :
> 
> sym0: <1010-66> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xf6000000-0xf6001fff,0xf6800000-0xf68003
> ff irq 25 at device 5.0 on pci1
> sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-80, LVD, parity checking
> sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
> sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
> sym0: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS.
> 
>         And to it I'm connecting an EasyRaid II RAID box. There is LITTLE
> I can configure on it, basically termination, SCSI ID, and Raid 0/1/0+1/3/5
> and thats pretty much it.
> 
>         When the system boots, the splash screen claims the geometry is 
> 1024/255/63 at 40M sync, and 16 wide. In the controller I've used 
> "Alternate CHS Mapping" and "SCSI Plug and Play Mapping" without any
> differences.
> 
>         When FreeBSD boots, it sees :
> 
> (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered.
> da0 at sym1 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
> da0: <easyRAID II > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 1060184MB (2171256832 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 135154C)
> 
> 
>         When I try to /stand/sysinstall it, fdisk pitches a serious fit about
> it.  
> 
>         What can I do to get this configured properly? It seems that if I
> bring it down to RAID-1+0, it configures up fine (Not sure what the
> geometry shows as, sorry).

See another recent message on this list from Brooks Davis.  It sounds like
sysinstall has issues with large arrays in -current, but fdisk works okay.

Try doing your installation on a smaller fdisk partition within sysinstall,
and then once you're installed, use the command line fdisk to create
another slice and use up the rest of the array.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken at kdm.org