From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 12: 0:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D5437B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:00:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C49743EC2 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5CF298; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:00:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6601C2FDC2C; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:00:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:00:05 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Pete Toscano Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frustrating disklabel problem Message-ID: <20030104200005.GA4023@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Pete Toscano , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030104162022.GA4732@bubba.toscano.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030104162022.GA4732@bubba.toscano.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # pete-freebsdquestions@toscano.org / 2003-01-04 11:20:22 -0500: > I'm trying to set up a vinum mirrored plex on my 4.7-STABLE (cvsup-ed as > of yesterday, 1/3) system. I have 3 30GB drives. Currently, only the > first disk is being used. This disk has all the system along with all > my digital photos and videos. I'd like to mirror the other two 30GB > drives and move the digital photos and videos there, so that if one > drive were to die, I'd still have these important pictures and videos. > > There is one (I hope) bit of strangeness about this system. I was initially > using a Promise FastTrack 100 (pdc20267 chip) card. Since I was having > problems with this, I recently got a cheap Maxtor adapter card. This > Maxtor card looks to be a relabeled Promise card with the pdc20269 chip. > The problem below is the same, regardless of which card is used. hmm, why are you trying to create a software mirror if you have a card that does that? you use vinum when you don't have a RAID card. you don't need it when you do have one. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message