Hi all, Thanks all for your replies. I installed 5.3 which saw the whole 2.2TB in sysinstall then I made two slices and mounted them. Everything worked fine.
Thanks again. Kudos to 5.3 Aman >> I am new to this big arrays. FreeBSD 5.2.1 doesnt see all the 2.2TB. > So am I, and I had the same problem recently. I used 5.3-Stable as of a > couple of weeks ago so YMMV, but... > >> GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc832fc50 >> da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 >> da0: <3ware Logical Disk 00 1.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device >> da0: 100.000MB/s transfers >> da0: 2384080MB (4882595840 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 303927C) > Looks good to me. > > You may want to have a look at: > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ > > Note that fdisk will only support upto 2TB partitions (aka slices in BSD), > and only allow you access to under 2TB of a disk, you seem to be just over > this limit. Therefore you may have to use gpt(8). > > Thus for you: > # gpt create da0 > # gpt add da0 > > Will create /dev/da0p1 and it will use the entire disk (use gpt show da0 > to > check), however it will probably not be bootable. > Also note that disklabel/bsdlabel dosen't like values over 2TB, so you > have > to use gpt to partition the disk as you want. > > Henry > -- Amandeep.S [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aman.chamkila.org _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
