Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Kevin Smith wrote: Just another thing, can you change or monitor the behaviour of this spare space reservation? Looking into man mpt gave nothing useful regarding this issue. The tunefs manpage has a little about the space reservation. You can set it with -m IIRC when doing the newfs, but I be

Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin Smith
2009/2/12 Richard Tector > Kevin Smith wrote: > >> Thanks for your advice, this was unusual for me, because even on a 4iR I >> couldnt see this space reservation. >> >> What about sysinstalls write error when extracting the ports collection? >> > > Bad install media perhaps? Have you encountered

Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Kevin Smith wrote: Thanks for your advice, this was unusual for me, because even on a 4iR I couldnt see this space reservation. What about sysinstalls write error when extracting the ports collection? Bad install media perhaps? Have you encountered any other issues? Richard _

Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin Smith
2009/2/12 Richard Tector > Kevin Smith wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a problem with a Dell Poweredge SC440 computer. >> It's equipped with a "Dell SATA/SAS 5iR" controller, it's from LSI >> actually >> (maybe megaraid). >> >> I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 Release >> >> I have 2x 500 GB SATA in a synchroni

Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Kevin Smith wrote: Hi, I have a problem with a Dell Poweredge SC440 computer. It's equipped with a "Dell SATA/SAS 5iR" controller, it's from LSI actually (maybe megaraid). I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 Release I have 2x 500 GB SATA in a synchronised(status optimal) RAID-1 logical volume. The machine

Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi, I have a problem with a Dell Poweredge SC440 computer. It's equipped with a "Dell SATA/SAS 5iR" controller, it's from LSI actually (maybe megaraid). I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 Release I have 2x 500 GB SATA in a synchronised(status optimal) RAID-1 logical volume. The machine is brand new, first p