On Tuesday, 2002-06-04 at 19:45:08 +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: > I'm trying to set up an external RAID box with a V880. The RAID > controller is an Infortrend EonRAID 2000, connected via Copper > FC-AL to a Qlogic QLA2200/CK. Solaris 2/02, no additional > patches (yet). > I can label the RAID LUN with format, but newfs'ing even a small > slice (1GB) fails. The net capacity of the RAID5 LUN is just > below 1TB, Geometry cyl 32717 alt 2 hd 255 sec 255. Which sort-of was the answer. I made a mistake with Google. I should have put the message in quotes. When I did that, I found three binaries at the MIT (newfs, mkfs, mount_nfs) and one Japanese PDF for a Compaq RAID. I was able to find an English PDF on www.compaq.com: ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/openstorage/aa-rfbpc-te.pdf This says that for Solaris 2.5(.1) and 2.6, 64 heads is the maximum. This seems to be unchanged for Solaris 7 and 8. Fortunately, this RAID controller allows me to limit the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors. This is what I found to work: <IFT-ER2000-0323 cyl 65533 alt 2 hd 64 sec 506> A greater number of heads gives a different error message, which I didn't save, sorry. Funnily, when you limit the geometry down to something that cannot accomodate the capacity of the LUN, format will correct this for you :-) You can also specify the number of heads for newfs, once you know this helps ;-) -t ntrack The number of tracks per cylinder on the disk. The default is taken from the disk label. I preferred changing the array. Summary^2: Nice RAID controller, shitty error handling in mkfs_ufs. HTH other people, Lupe Christoph -- | lupe_at_lupe-christoph.de | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | I have challenged the entire ISO-9000 quality assurance team to a | | Bat-Leth contest on the holodeck. They will not concern us again. | | http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/joke/klingon.htm | _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jun 6 02:02:02 2002
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Mar 03 2016 - 06:42:46 EST