Incorrect geometry with 750G ciss array

[Kevin Day]

On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Paul Saab wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Kevin Day <kevin at your.org> wrote:
>
> I've got some new HP DL185 G5 servers, using the integrated RAID  
> controller. I'm having trouble finding any geometry settings that  
> the 7.0-RELEASE sysinstall is happy with that will result in a  
> bootable system though. Any pointers from anyone who has been here  
> before?
>
> ciss0: <HP Smart Array E200> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem  
> 0xdef80000-0xdeffffff,0xdef78000-0xdef7ffff irq 35 at device 8.0 on  
> pci5
> ciss0: [ITHREAD]
> da0: 762977MB (1562578608 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C)
>
> Can you boot verbose and give me the ciss and da lines please.
>

ciss0: <HP Smart Array E200> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem  
0xdef80000-0xdeffffff,0xdef78000-0xdef7ffff irq 35 at device 8.0 on pci5
ciss0: Reserved 0x80000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xdef80000
ioapic2: routing intpin 3 (PCI IRQ 35) to vector 55
ciss0: [MPSAFE]
ciss0: [ITHREAD]
ciss0: using 256 of 256 available commands
ciss0:   firmware 1.72
ciss0:   1 SCSI channels
ciss0:   signature 'CISS'
ciss0:   valence 1
ciss0:   supported I/O methods 0x6<simple,performant>
ciss0:   active I/O method 0x3<simple>
ciss0:   4G page base 0x00000000
ciss0:   interrupt coalesce delay 1000us
ciss0:   interrupt coalesce count 16
ciss0:   max outstanding commands 256
ciss0:   bus types 0x200000
ciss0:   server name ''
ciss0:   heartbeat 0x101
ciss0: 6 physical devices
ciss0: 1 logical drive
ciss0: logical drive (b0t0): RAID 5, 762880MB online
da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <COMPAQ RAID 5  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
da0: Serial Number PA6CCOMPAQ  RAID
da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
da0: 762977MB (1562578608 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C)

# fdisk da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=191492 heads=255 sectors/track=32 (8160 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=191492 heads=255 sectors/track=32 (8160 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
     start 63, size 1562578227 (762977 Meg), flag 80 (active)
         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
         end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

-- Kevin