From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 18:51:30 2004 Return-Path: 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 BDD9716A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:51:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [212.104.129.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012DA43D1F for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:51:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@ninjalabs.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B504B406860 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:51:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19667-01-13 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [82.152.95.185]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090104063DD for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:51:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:51:38 +0000 Message-Id: <1100631098.43464.10.camel@shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk Subject: vinum problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:51:30 -0000 Hi, I've just built a machine with a vinum root successfully. All vinum sets show that they are up and working. There are two ATA disks in a RAID1 root formation. Some questions? 1. The set has just failed completely (sorry it isn't up and working now) on the first reboot. It is possible to bring the machine up from the primary disk with no problems but any attempt to start the mirror drive causes a panic with a "hardware error" although checking it with bsdlabel shows the partition table is intact. Any ideas? the drive is fine - i've pulled it and tested it and it's fine. It's booting using BootMgr. I've killed it completely now by reloading the vinum config twice. so it's out of action permanently. I did make sure that there was enough space at the start of the disk for the vinum info to survive. 2. Speed. The vinum set is a "concat" disk. The read performance was really slow (visibly so). Can you boot off a striped volume and will it benefit me at all making it a striped volume at all rather than a concat? hardware: SIL3112 SATA RAID controller. 2x 80Gb Seagate barracuda ATA disks (ad4, ad6) FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE config: cant provide this - it won't boot any more. Any ideas? Or any good resources on setting up a RAID1 root disk??? Cheers, - Chris.