I recently built out an OpenBSD backup server on a Dell 2950
with a 2.7TB RAID array, and I ran into some trouble with fdisk
recognizing my disk. The geometries it reported were worth
about 750GB. Attempting to change CHS geometry led to "out
of bounds" errors. I did not mess with sector-only settings - I
ran through the installation, as it was, leaving my huge partitions
out. Once the machine was built, I used disklabel's "b"
command to change the disk boundaries to the whole disk.
Things are working just fine now, but is fdisk partitioning with
sectors the Right way to do this?
-HKS
OpenBSD 4.4-stable (GENERIC) #0: Wed Nov 19 12:00:19 EST 2008
r...@backup.local:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.60 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,CX16,xTPR
real mem = 2142142464 (2042MB)
avail mem = 2062938112 (1967MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 02/05/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xffe90, SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0x7fb9c000 (66 entries)
bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "2.2.6" date 02/05/2008
bios0: Dell Inc. PowerEdge 2950
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC SPCR HPET MCFG WD__ SLIC ERST HEST BERT EINJ TCPA
acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S5)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 4 (PEX2)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 5 (UPST)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 6 (DWN1)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 8 (DWN2)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEX3)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 0 (PE2P)
acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 10 (PEX4)
acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 12 (PEX6)
acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus 2 (SBEX)
acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus 14 (COMP)
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x9000! 0xc9000/0x1000 0xca000/0x1e00
0xcc000/0x5e00 0xec000/0x4000!
ipmi at mainbus0 not configured
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 5000X Host" rev 0x12
ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12
pci1 at ppb0 bus 4
ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01
pci2 at ppb1 bus 5
ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01
pci3 at ppb2 bus 6
ppb3 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3
pci4 at ppb3 bus 7
bnx0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: irq 5
ppb4 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01: irq 5
pci5 at ppb4 bus 8
ppb5 at pci1 dev 0 function 3 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x01
pci6 at ppb5 bus 9
ppb6 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12
pci7 at ppb6 bus 1
mfi0 at pci7 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic SAS1078" rev 0x04: irq 5,
Dell PERC 6/i integrated
mfi0: logical drives 1, version 6.0.1-0080, 256MB RAM
scsibus0 at mfi0: 1 targets, initiator 64
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 6/i, 1.11> SCSI3 0/direct fixed
sd0: 2859520MB, 44942 cyl, 511 head, 255 sec, 512 bytes/sec,
5856296960 sec total
ppb7 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE x8" rev 0x12
pci8 at ppb7 bus 10
ppb8 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12
pci9 at ppb8 bus 11
ppb9 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE x8" rev 0x12
pci10 at ppb9 bus 12
ppb10 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12
pci11 at ppb10 bus 13
pchb1 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12
pchb2 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12
pchb3 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12
pchb4 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12
pchb5 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12
pchb6 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12
pchb7 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12
ppb11 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x09
pci12 at ppb11 bus 2
ppb12 at pci12 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3
pci13 at ppb12 bus 3
bnx1 at pci13 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: irq 5
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 11
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 10
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 11
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 10
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 11
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ppb13 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xd9
pci14 at ppb13 bus 14
vga1 at pci14 dev 13 function 0 "ATI ES1000" rev 0x02
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
drm at vga1 unsupported
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB LPC" rev 0x09: PM disabled
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB IDE" rev 0x09: DMA,
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0
scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets, initiator 7
cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, CD-ROM GCR-8240N, 1.10> ATAPI
5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
biomask fde5 netmask fde5 ttymask ffff
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
uhub5 at uhub0 port 1 "Dell product 0xa001" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2
uhidev0 at uhub5 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Dell DRAC5" rev
1.10/0.00 addr 3
uhidev0: iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
uhidev1 at uhub5 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 "Dell DRAC5" rev
1.10/0.00 addr 3
uhidev1: iclass 3/1
ums0 at uhidev1
ums0: X report 0x0002 not supported
uhub6 at uhub0 port 5 "Cypress Semiconductor USB2 Hub" rev 2.00/0.0b addr 4
softraid0 at root
root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
bnx1: address 00:1c:23:d5:be:16
brgphy0 at bnx1 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6
bnx0: address 00:1c:23:d5:be:18
brgphy1 at bnx0 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6
