Lisandro Grullon wrote:
The current setup I got in the machine is using 2 SATA (200GB each) with
the raid controller that is build into the motherboard (tyan S2885). I
wanted to add additional space and I got a Areca 1120 which could hold
another 8 sata drives. I only have a 5 bay enclosure so I went ahead and
I orderd 5 (300GB) drives. I configure the controller to use Raid 5 with
4 drives and keep 1 as spare in case of a failure. The problem that is
bothering me is that the OS works great with the RAID 1 configuration.
When I boot into FBSD it all goes ok and I loging and everything , but
when I try configuring the RAID 5 disk set using sysinstall> fdisk I get
the disk geometry error right after selecting the disk set. I am not
sure, but is there a way to find out the disk geometry that the
controller bios is assuming is the correct one. If there is a way to
find that information our, I can just use the "G" option in fdisk and
input the correct disk geometry myself. What aproach is the best one to
take in my case. Thank you. Lisandro
What's still not apparent to me is what the real trouble is. I
regularly see the "geometry incorrect" message from sysinstall, but
have not had it fail to write. I'm pretty sure that's what I'm hearing
from Jerry McAllister's response, also.
I guess my question for Lisandro is, "can't you just ignore the
error, do the write, and be OK?" Of course, I think that if that
were the case, this thread would have been over a few posts ago.
As for the "G" option, I can't say it's made any difference for me...
Have we seen any diagnostic information? Could we see the relevant
section of /var/run/dmesg.boot? How about `ls -l /dev/ad* /dev/ar*
/dev/da*` ? `bsdlabel /dev/foo` ?
Kevin Kinsey
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Reactor error - core dumped!
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