From: Lupe Christoph (lupe@lupe-christoph.de)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 14:27:00 EDT
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
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