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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:30:44 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
Cc:        lists@security.za.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 40gig IDE drives?
Message-ID:  <20000602173044.S22978@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006012354580.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006020851450.530-100000@security.za.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006012354580.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>

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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
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