> Running today's RELENG_7 (although 7.0-RELEASE has the same problem),
> GENERIC kernel on an amd64 and I can't seem to get a da(4) device for
> any arrays bigger than 2TB.
In earlier releases (5 and 6 at least) you couldn't create partitions
larger than 2 TB. I don't know whether work has been to circumvent
this in 7 but tools like fsck has to be changed as well. Have you
tried zfs?
> dmesg:
> <...>
> ciss0: <HP Smart Array P400> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem
0xfdf00000-0xfdffffff,0xfdef
> 0000-0xfdef0fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci10
> ciss0: [ITHREAD]
> <...>
> da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <COMPAQ RAID 1 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> da0: 953837MB (1953459632 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C)
> da1 at ciss0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <COMPAQ RAID 0 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> da1: 135.168MB/s transfers
> da1: 953837MB (1953459632 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C)
> da2 at ciss0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da2: <COMPAQ RAID 0 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> da2: 135.168MB/s transfers
> da2: 1907675MB (3906918832 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C)
> (da3:ciss0:0:3:0): got CAM status 0x4
> (da3:ciss0:0:3:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
> (da3:ciss0:0:3:0): lost device
> (da3:ciss0:0:3:0): removing device entry
> (da4:ciss0:0:4:0): got CAM status 0x4
> (da4:ciss0:0:4:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
> (da4:ciss0:0:4:0): lost device
> (da4:ciss0:0:4:0): removing device entry
> <...>
>
> The arrays I'm testing with:
> da1 = 1 x 1TB
> da2 = 2 x 1TB
> da3 = 3 x 1TB
> da4 = 4 x 1TB
>
> Also:
> # camcontrol devlist
> <COMPAQ RAID 1 VOLUME OK> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0
(pass0,da0)
> <COMPAQ RAID 0 VOLUME OK> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0
(pass1,da1)
> <COMPAQ RAID 0 VOLUME OK> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0
(pass2,da2)
> <COMPAQ RAID 0 VOLUME OK> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3)
> <COMPAQ RAID 0 VOLUME OK> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass4)
> # camcontrol readcap pass2
> Last Block: 3906918831, Block Length: 512 bytes
> # camcontrol readcap pass3
> (pass3:ciss0:0:3:0): SERVICE ACTION IN(16). CDB: 9e 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 c 0 0
> (pass3:ciss0:0:3:0): CAM Status: CCB request completed with an error
>
> Is it possible to get FreeBSD to recognize arrays > 2TB?
> Are there any further diagnostics I can provide?
>
> --Emil
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