how to use 5T RAID disk with NetBSD
[email protected] Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:41:32 -0700 (MST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general,gmane.os.netbsd.general |
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Hi, I have a 5 TB RAID array that is connected to a NetBSD host. The NetBSD host doesn't give me the correct information about the size of the RAID arrays (0 sec): ***** sd2 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <IFT, A16U-G2421, 342E> disk fixed sd2: 512, 168126 cyl, 255 head, 0 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1 sectors sd2: sync (6.25ns offset 127), 16-bit (320.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing ****** As I understand, NetBSD can handle up to 4TB file system on both 64- and 32-bit machines so I partition my RAID array into 2: 4TB and 1TB. The host can detect the 1T disk correctly but it still doesn't give correct information about the 4T disk (0 sec). ***** sd2 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <IFT, A16U-G2421, 342E> disk fixed sd2: 1212 GB, 39120 cyl, 255 head, 255 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2543824896 sectors sd3 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 1: <IFT, A16U-G2421, 342E> disk fixed sd3: 512, 129005 cyl, 255 head, 0 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1 sectors sd2: sync (6.25ns offset 127), 16-bit (320.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing sd3: sync (6.25ns offset 127), 16-bit (320.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing ******** My questions are: - Can NetBSD 4.0 handle > 4T file system ? - Do I need to make the kernel detect the harddisk correctly before using it ? If yes, how could I do that ? Do I need to rebuild the kernel ? If yes, what option needs to be changed in the GENERIC file ? - How can I add the 4T hard disk to the existing NetBSD host? Disklabel doesn't calculate the size correctly and not allow me to partition the disk bigger than 2T. - Is there any tool similar to disklabel that handles the big disks. Thank you very much, Co Ngo