From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 1: 1:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891D137B989 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:01:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA26392; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:30:44 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:30:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: lists@security.za.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 40gig IDE drives? Message-ID: <20000602173044.S22978@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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