From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 15:20:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A0114D56 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id PAA14721 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:20:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA290970782; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:19:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id PAA12602; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:19:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903122319.PAA12602@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Brad Knowles , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:30:24 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:19:41 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anyway, the one hurdle I'm trying to get over at the moment is that > vinum thinks that the devices /dev/da1c through /dev/da9c do not exist > (they do -- I created them with MAKEDEV), and therefore it refuses to > start the disks d1 through d9. Without those disks, of course neither of > the two plexes start up, and of course the volume fails to start as well. Once the plex has been created, you need to use names like "/dev/da1" instead of "/dev/da1c" (the man page is wrong). Just drop the partition letter and use the name of the disk slice. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message