From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 10:40:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-03-real.cdsnet.net (mail-03-real.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D13C37BAC8 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 26418 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2000 17:40:43 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail-03-real.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 2 Jun 2000 17:40:43 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:35:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Greg Lehey Cc: lists@security.za.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 40gig IDE drives? In-Reply-To: <20000602173044.S22978@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah, that was my though. I left sectors free at the front, but that wasn't it. Soren was looking at seeing if there was some way to read the promise label/record keeping, and turn that into a vinum setup somehow, so it would be relatively transparent. But I don't think he could get the docs from Promise, or perhaps just got busy. 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 79405) d: 80040224 1024 vinum # (Cyl. 1*- 79405*) On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 23:56:44 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > > I have 2 maxtor 40GB's running off a Promise FastTrak 66 under 4.0-stable, > > and it's working fine, except for one teensy problem. > > > > vinum (striping them), apparently overwrote whatever the promise uses to > > track them as part of a stripe set... So on reboot, I have to hit an F2 > > configure, because the promise thinks the array is unconfigured... > > Interesting. Can you find out where the controller keeps its config? > You probably would have been OK if you had left some space free at the > beginning or the end of the drive. That's probably worth a word of > warning somewhere. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message