On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:58:02AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 > TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is > reported as 2TB disk only. > > The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). > The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition. > > I tried the 3 TB harddrive on a FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT box with Intel > ICH10R SATA chipset and it worked fine, was reported as 2.7TB drive > as expected. > > I found some postings concerning mptutil not dealing with HD > 2TB, > but this issue seems not to be a tool-issue. > > Questions: > a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS > issue which can be solved? > > b) regarding to a), how can I update the BIOS/MPT firmware of the > Dell PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I > said, the firmware is quite old, it's from 2007.
The answer is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/147572 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
