I'm trying to get a new fileserver at work up and running, we're using SuSE 9.1 with a 3ware 9500S-12 RAID card (uses the 3w-9xxx module), and 12 250GB SATA drives.
Problem is, I can't create a partition on this thing of over 300G. The default SuSE kernel does include large block device support (CONFIG_LBD=y). Linux fdisk has problems with creating a device over 2TB, but even GNU parted can't create more than a 300G partition on this raid array.
I suppose I COULD forego the partition and create the array right on /dev/sdb (instead of /dev/sdb1), but I really don't feel comfortable with doing such a thing.
I have tried the latest kernel and the latest firmware for the RAID card, too.
Anyone have any ideas? The RAID card itself can see and use the entire array (I hit Alt-3 when booting, and verified the array), so I'm beginning to think it's got to be a driver issue.
Rich
On Tue, September 14, 2004 10:32 am, Rich Edelman said:
I'm trying to get a new fileserver at work up and running, we're using SuSE 9.1 with a 3ware 9500S-12 RAID card (uses the 3w-9xxx module), and 12 250GB SATA drives.
Problem is, I can't create a partition on this thing of over 300G.
Maybe you need to google around for patched disk utilities?
I suppose I COULD forego the partition and create the array right on /dev/sdb (instead of /dev/sdb1)...
Um, why not? Isn't that where you're supposed to put it? Unless /dev/sdb1 is a logical partition (more usually partition 3 or 4 is), you would put the partition on the root device, not under another partition. (I'm not familiar with Linux RAID, this may be normal.)
What about Mfr. supplied utilities? How do they want to partition?
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 10:53 am, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Tue, September 14, 2004 10:32 am, Rich Edelman said:
I'm trying to get a new fileserver at work up and running, we're using SuSE 9.1 with a 3ware 9500S-12 RAID card (uses the 3w-9xxx module), and 12 250GB SATA drives.
Problem is, I can't create a partition on this thing of over 300G.
Maybe you need to google around for patched disk utilities?
I have tried the newest parted and fdisk utilities...
I suppose I COULD forego the partition and create the array right on /dev/sdb (instead of /dev/sdb1)...
Um, why not? Isn't that where you're supposed to put it? Unless /dev/sdb1 is a logical partition (more usually partition 3 or 4 is), you would put the partition on the root device, not under another partition. (I'm not familiar with Linux RAID, this may be normal.)
What about Mfr. supplied utilities? How do they want to partition?
Erm, sorry.. I meant create the filesystem right on /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1.
What mfr supplied utilities? 3Ware cards don't come with anything like that, just raid drivers for the OS, and you use OS utilities (parted, fdisk) to partition.
Anyway, thanks to a helpful guy in #suse on irc.freenode.net and some helpful 3ware engineers, the problem is solved. When using this card in a 64-bit PCI slot, you MUST boot with 'acpi=off', otherwise ACPI resets the controller and the card is non-functional. This was previously noted for SuSE 9.0, but I guess wasn't supposed to happen on newer distros. 3ware is going to update their documentation. :)
Rich
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