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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:37:54PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> I'm currently working on getting a machine with a 3ware 9550SX and 16
> 750G drives ready for production use.  One of the stumbling blocks I'm
> coming up against is that our twa(4) driver doesn't seem to support the
> controller exporting disks with a LUN !=3D 0 - which means that 3ware's
> "boot volume" is useless to me.    What I'd _like_ to do is create a
> 14-disk RAID5, and create a 40G boot volume so that I don't have to deal
> with a boot volume that's too big for an MBR.  If I do this, however,
> twa(4) only reports the 40G drive, but not the big one, because the
> controller exports it as unit 0, lun 1.
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> A quick look at the twa(4) driver and ld_twa.c lead me to believe that
> the lun issue is never really addressed - it also convinces me that
> storage drivers really aren't my thing.  :)  I would greatly appreciate
> it if Someone In The Know would glance at it and at least tell me what
> needs to be done.  I've filed PR kern/35591 to track the issue.

Ok, I thought I knew what we need to do, but I don't. I think we need to=20
know more about how FreeBSD is handling this. We have some very=20
rudimentary (and probably wrong) LUN handling in there, and I don't=20
understand why it's not working.

Take care,

Bill

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