On 2004-12-14 12:29, Amandeep Pannu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have 12WD 200GB SATA drives with RAID5 and glabal spare on 3ware 9000
> series controller. Also one 80GB SATA drive for OS.
> I had to manually compile the twa driver. kldload twa. The system started
> recognizing the controller and the total capacity.
> Although the dao show 2.2TB but when I try to partition the RAID5 the
> sysinstall only shows me 271GB.
This may be a bug in the way sysinstall handles huge numbers.
> Any ideas how to partition or see the whole 2TB.
Try using fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs without relying on the sysinstall
interface, i.e.:
1. Install a single slice covering the entire disk:
# fdisk -I /dev/da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
# fdisk -I /dev/da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
#
2. Install a new label on da0s1:
# bsdlabel -w /dev/da0s1
3. Edit the label. Keep in mind that in 5.X the 'c' partition covers
only the `useful' area of the disk, so you don't have to leave some
unused space at the beginning of da0s1c when you set the size of the
da0s1a partition:
# bsdlabel -e /dev/da0s1
4. Create a new filesystem on da0s1a:
# newfs /dev/da0s1a
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