From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 5:26:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lily.ezo.net (lily.ezo.net [206.102.130.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1078037B573 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 05:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) Received: from lily.ezo.net (jflowers@localhost.ezo.net [127.0.0.1]) by lily.ezo.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA07053; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:25:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:25:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Flowers To: Jaye Mathisen 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 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 #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