From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Dec 28 14:41: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.nserver.net (nina.herculeshosting.com [209.69.255.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D43A14A2E for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:40:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@unsecure.net) Received: from nina.herculeshosting.com (foobar@nina.herculeshosting.com [209.69.255.64]) by ns1.nserver.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03331 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 22:51:31 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 22:51:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Zachary M. Smith" X-Sender: zach@ns1.nserver.net To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: IBM DNES-309170 LVD Problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just purchased three IBM DNES-309170 drives and planned on using Vinum to configure them in a RAID 0 and/or 5 setup. I have read a bit a vinum and now I am trying to get the drives ready to be used in a few simple vinum tests. however, i am running into some problems that i am hoping you folks can help me with. 1. I can create FDISK partitions on the disk just fine. Once I get an FDISK partition setup, I try to use disklabel to change the partition type to vinum, but when i try to write the changes to the label, disklabel tells me "operation not supported by device" 2. I have also tried to create slices in my FDISK partition just to test the drive, but I am unable to create slices. I get the error "Device rda0s1c: name slot allocation failed (Errno=17)" Any ideas? Bellow I have included output from dmesg, fdisk, and disklabel for reference. Thanks in advance for ANY help! :) dmesg shows me this: ---------------------- (first finds my controller) ahc1: rev 0x00 int a irq 16 on pci0.19.0 ahc1: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=5, 16/255 SCBs (then finds my drives) da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) da2 at ahc1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da2: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) da1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) ---------------------- and fdisk /dev/da0 shows me this: ---------------------- ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1115 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1115 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 6281352 (3067 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 390/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: ---------------------- and disklabel /dev/da0 shows me this: ---------------------- type: SCSI disk: IBM label: DNES-309170W flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 1115 sectors/unit: 17916240 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] ---------------------- I am fairly new to this so hopefully I am just overlooking something obvious that someone could point out to me. :) ANY help would be appreciated. Zach Smith +-------------------+ | UNIX Nerd | | & | | Professional Geek | +-------------------+ zach@unsecure.net http://www.unsecure.net Public Key Available At http://www.keyserver.net EB0C 89F5 697E FDD5 3AD4 2ADE 33A1 5A5E 50B7 1FA0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message