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From: daroger@tisc.com (David A. Roger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help with setting for 21GB (CDR-5400 Controller) RAID
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:06:56 GMT
Organization: The Titan Corporation, San Diego, CA, USA
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Want to install a RAID 21GB (CDR-5400 Controller) disk unit.

I am running 2.0.5, the FAQ's report that new support may be
added to 2.1 for large disk units. I have 2.1 CDROM, but have
not had the opportunity to rebuild due to production environment.
Working on second unit, moving all production work to primary so I can
if necessary upgrade to 2.1

Connected unit to wide scsi (Adaptec 2940W PCI). The unit is found by
the probes and reports back:

/kernel: (ahc0:3:0): "CMD TECH VIPER A2-3" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
/kernel: sd1(ahc0:3:0): Direct-Access 20478MB (41940480 512 byte
sectors)

disklabel report bad drive geometry, but see disk unit 
correctly. Unable to partition. Have reviewed /etc/disktab, but am
unsure of what to do.

My question are:

1. Disk units > 2GB on FreeBSD - do I have to go up to 2.1 to be
supported?

2. Is there Max partition sizes in FreeBSD? Will I have to partition
to something like 2GB.

3. Drive Geometry?, In the package were Ultrix and SunOS 4.1.x Drive
Geometry settings. Can I use the Ultrix disktab with a little
translation from the FreeBSD "disktab" man page?

David A. Roger
MIS, Titan Information Systems, Inc.
San Diego, CA

daroger@tisc.com