sysinstall disklabel limit

[Joe Holden]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 25 August 2006 07:47, Dave Kingsley wrote:
>> I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a
>> storage server.  The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D
>> 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM.
>> When I set up a RAID5 with 7 750GB drives I get nothing but wierdness.
>> Using sysinstall -> Configure -> Fdisk I can see the full size:
>> DISK Geometry:  547149 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8789948685 sectors 
>> (4291967MB)
>>
>> But Label sees:
>> Disk: da0       Partition name: da0s1   Free: 200014030 blocks (97663MB)
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?  All of the drivers seem to installed; at least 
>> they say they are.
>> Is this just too big for FreeBSD?  I hope not!
> 
> I think there are some patches to fix sysinstall, but it still tops out at 2TB 
> I thought.  cc'ing some folks who probably know better than I.
> 
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html

ta,
J

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