Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:35:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: lists@security.za.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 40gig IDE drives? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021033080.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20000602173044.S22978@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Yeah, that was my though. I left sectors free at the front, but that wasn't it. Soren was looking at seeing if there was some way to read the promise label/record keeping, and turn that into a vinum setup somehow, so it would be relatively transparent. But I don't think he could get the docs from Promise, or perhaps just got busy. 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 79405) d: 80040224 1024 vinum # (Cyl. 1*- 79405*) 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
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