Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:25:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> Cc: lists@security.za.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 40gig IDE drives? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.1000602080907.15041B-100000@lily.ezo.net> In-Reply-To: <20000602173044.S22978@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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May or may not be related but I found with 4.0 that when I edited the disklabel to change the type to vinum the in-core copy was not written although the on-disk copy was, giving vinum a problem. Fix was to repartition each disk in the array with a true partition entry. Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> #4 ISP on C|NET, #1 in Ohio 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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