LSI Logic Fibre Channel Card

[Joe Holden]

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:47:51PM +0100, Joe Holden wrote:
>   
>> Hi Collective,
>>                       I've recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto a
>> machine, and attached a LSI Logic 919X FC Controller, after finally
>> getting the card working, im having issues with GEOM.
>> It's reporting a max size of 1tb, fdisk shows capacity as
>> 999999MB(Basically it doesn't know).  Everytime i press a key in
>> sysinstall, it says my GEOM is incorrect.
>>
>> Any suggestions as how to go about getting the full 3.5TB? (I'm not
>> familiar with SCSI)
>>     
>
> With i386 and amd64, you will need to boot off of another volume in
> order to use a volume larger than 2TB because the only supported
> partition type is MS-DOS MBR which has a 2TB limit.  (You're also
> apparently running up against limits in sysinstall, but that's fairly
> immaterial) To use the volume at all, you will either need to install a
> UFS file system on it directly or create a gpt partition table.
>
> -- Brooks
>
>   
HI there, thanks for the reply, I ended up splitting it into two
volumes, about half each, seems to have solved the problem!

Thanks,
Joe

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