From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 12:08:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479471065674 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 12:08:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (dsl081-172-045.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.172.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBD88FC19 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 12:08:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (localhost.1command.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n45C6668037242; Tue, 5 May 2009 05:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id n45C66H1037241; Tue, 5 May 2009 05:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from hitme.hitometer.net (hitme.hitometer.net [64.81.172.194]) by webmail.1command.com (H.R. Communications Messaging System) with HTTP; Tue, 05 May 2009 05:06:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20090505050606.hkxc6cgl3k8ccgws@webmail.1command.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 05:06:06 -0700 From: Chris H To: Holger Kipp References: <20090505024800.tk0saqntsgk8kk8c@webmail.1command.com> <20090505101301.GA31143@intserv.int1.b.intern> In-Reply-To: <20090505101301.GA31143@intserv.int1.b.intern> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: H.R. Communications Internet Messaging System (HCIMS) 4.1 Professional (not for redistribution) / UNIX Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM_STRIPE: Cannot add disk da2c to st0 (error=17). X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:08:13 -0000 Hello, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Holger Kipp : > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:48:00AM -0700, Chris H wrote: >> Greetings, >> I'm attempting to upgrade one of our servers to 6.4 (from 6.2) >> Before doing so I need to stripe 3 identical drives on the >> same SCSI port into one drive, the drives are on an LSI controller >> with 2 ports: > [..] >> However, when I attempt to stripe the 3 unused drives, I recieve an >> error regarding da2: >> >> gstripe label -v st0 /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 >> GEOM_STRIPE: Device st0 created (id=2607126992). >> GEOM_STRIPE: Disk da0 attached to st0. >> Metadata value stored on /dev/da0. >> GEOM_STRIPE: Disk da1 attached to st0. >> Metadata value stored on /dev/da1. >> GEOM_STRIPE: Disk da2 attached to st0. >> GEOM_STRIPE: Device st0 activated. >> GEOM_STRIPE: Cannot add disk da2c to st0 (error=17). >> Metadata value stored on /dev/da2. >> >> I blanked the 3 drives prior to attempting any of this, and it's >> on a fresh reboot. I'm afraid I don't know how to proceed. Is it >> a problem with gstripe(8)? I /really/ need to stripe these drives >> so as to upgrade the system. > > Can you check if you have any fdisk metadata on either of your disks? > Especially as da0, da1, da2 are attached to st0 without problems, > but then GEOM_STRIPE complains about da2c (which looks like a partition > entry)... I cheated, and went into sysinstall > custom > partition chose each of da0, da1, and da2 pressed "f" then "no" then "yes". Which forced a "dangerously" dedicated disk. I also chose "w" on all occasions, and each time the response indicated Successfully written to disk. I then bailed out of sysinstall, then went back, and deleted the partitions, and again, chose "w". Which also indicated "Successfully written to disk". I then bailed out of sysinstall. Having felt the disks were all now clean, I proceeded with the command: gstripe label -v st0 /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 ...well, you know the rest of the story. :) Is this not a good (the best) direction to take? Thank you again for your reply. --Chris H > > Mind you, this is just a wild guess from my side ;-) > > Regards, > Holger >