HP ML350 G5 RAID5 and freeBSD 7

[dct]

Hi All,
I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart Array E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA 1TB. The problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss driver). The error messge: No Disk Found.

Could anyone help?

Thanks,
dct

[Brian McGonigle]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:22 PM, dct wrote:

>
> Hi All,
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart  
> Array
> E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA  
> 1TB. The
> problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss
> driver). The error messge: No Disk Found.
>
> Could anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
> dct
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If you have six 1TB drives, try making a few 1TB RAID1's. I had  
trouble getting FreeBSD to see large disks like that on a DL320s. I  
made a 8TB RAID6 and it wouldn't see it, but it saw a 1TB RAID1 just  
fine.
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[dct]

Thanks Brian for reply,
FreeBSD 7.1 partially solves the problem. During the installation, it could recognize the RAID5 virtual disk with the correct size of ~5TB. So installation seems ok.
But another problem, after installation done, login as root, issue "df -g" to check the drive, it says 517 GB (expected is 5TB) ???

Looking for further help for our community.
DCT

Brian McGonigle wrote:

On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:22 PM, dct wrote:

>
> Hi All,
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 7 on HP Proliant ML350 G5. The Smart  
> Array
> E200i controller is seems ok with RAID5 configuration for 6xSATA  
> 1TB. The
> problem is FreeBSD can't not regconize the virtual disk (using cciss
> driver). The error messge: No Disk Found.
>
> Could anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
> dct
> --
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If you have six 1TB drives, try making a few 1TB RAID1's. I had  
trouble getting FreeBSD to see large disks like that on a DL320s. I  
made a 8TB RAID6 and it wouldn't see it, but it saw a 1TB RAID1 just  
fine.
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