Hello!
I have a question to FreeBSD experts...
I am trying to tune up ftp-server for local use in our organization. I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 on common PC (P4, Intel D865PERL), everything was OK. I've chosen two Seagate ST3500320AS as ftp-data carriers, I've had an idea to create RAID1 via gmirror.
But when I try to add one of these drives to the mirror, system shows me an error: "Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted", similar error appears when I try to create/change a slice using fdisk.
I found out that problem, most likely, is with disk geometry or with FreeBSD's representation of it... (I think that because sysinstall shows me alert every time I try to make some changes in HDD partition table). When I start fdisk via sisinstall, it tells me that my disk's geometry is 969021/16/63, but it is wrong and sysinstall recommends me this one: 60801/255/63 (and I have to say, that this geometry is announced by disk manufacturer)
Does anyone have any suggestion how to solve this issue?
I have a question to FreeBSD experts...
I am trying to tune up ftp-server for local use in our organization. I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 on common PC (P4, Intel D865PERL), everything was OK. I've chosen two Seagate ST3500320AS as ftp-data carriers, I've had an idea to create RAID1 via gmirror.
But when I try to add one of these drives to the mirror, system shows me an error: "Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted", similar error appears when I try to create/change a slice using fdisk.
I found out that problem, most likely, is with disk geometry or with FreeBSD's representation of it... (I think that because sysinstall shows me alert every time I try to make some changes in HDD partition table). When I start fdisk via sisinstall, it tells me that my disk's geometry is 969021/16/63, but it is wrong and sysinstall recommends me this one: 60801/255/63 (and I have to say, that this geometry is announced by disk manufacturer)
Does anyone have any suggestion how to solve this issue?