From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 17:27:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C3A16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:27:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506A243D1F for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CD22BD3D for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:27:18 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C81C751206; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:57:16 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:57:16 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Marc Smits Message-ID: <20031220012716.GS6130@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1071851660.3fe3288c7e0b7@webmail.dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NZ00oluAJr3A0NMv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1071851660.3fe3288c7e0b7@webmail.dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum error "Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:27:22 -0000 --NZ00oluAJr3A0NMv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Friday, 19 December 2003 at 17:34:20 +0100, Marc Smits wrote: > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex > from 2 new 80Gb disks. > > Here's my vinum-description: > drive a device /dev/ad2s1e > drive b device /dev/ad3s1e > volume stripe0 > plex org striped 256k > sd length 78159m drive a > sd length 78159m drive b > > When I run 'vinum create vinum.conf' The message I get is: > 1: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e > ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument > 2: drive b device /dev/ad3s1e > ** 2 Can't initialize drive b: Invalid argument > 0 drives: > 1 volumes: > V stripe0 State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 152GB > > 1 plexes: > P stripe0.p0 S State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 152GB > > 2 subdisks: > S stripe0.p0.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 76GB > S stripe0.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 256 kB Size: 76GB > > I used sysinstall to fdisk and label the partitions. How? IIRC sysinstall won't create a Vinum partition for you. You need to use disklabel, as described in the man page. > What do need to do diffrent to get vinum to use the partitions? That depends on exactly what you've done, but I think it's what I said above. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --NZ00oluAJr3A0NMv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/46V0IubykFB6QiMRAi3QAJ95fu5v1okz9TbB1l0iAzuMUflQ1gCgoM5E gCDGTgfQep72S2nuLTsaPIg= =JY4D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NZ00oluAJr3A0NMv--