From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 9:12:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ycn.com (mail.ycn.com [212.88.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1086637B41E for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws01 (212-88-187-192.ADSL.ycn.com [212.88.187.192]) by mail.ycn.com (8.11.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id g33HEbi26522; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:14:38 +0200 From: "Richard Kaestner" To: "'Rakesh Malewar'" Cc: Subject: RE: problem configuring VINUM Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:26:15 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Rakesh Malewar > Sent: Mittwoch, 03. April 2002 15:23 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: problem configuring VINUM > > > hi there, > i am trying to configure my hard disk (IDE device)for > vinum support. i am using 4.5 FreeBSD with the GENERIC > kernel. when i do "disklabel -e /dev/ad0" using vi > editor, it shows me the unused partition but when i > try to change the type to 'vinum' ,it warns me that > "disklabel: Operation not supported by device " and > asks to re-edit the label and again the same error > occurs. i am not able to figure out what is wrong. do > i need to patch up the kernel with vinum support or > load more packages for that. > thanks. > rit. Rakesh, maybe, you tried to edit "c:"? this is explicitly stated in one of the documents regarding vinum. type: ESDI disk: ad1s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 29794 sectors/unit: 30033297 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 409600 262144 4.2BSD 2048 16384 97 # (Cyl. 260*- 666*) b: 262144 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 260*) c: 30033297 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 29794*) e: 29361553 671744 vinum # (Cyl. 666*- 29794*) ^^^^^ -- ciao - Richard "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" Richard Kästner Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden mailto:richard.kaestner@ycn.com Austria To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message