From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 20:39:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14731 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 20:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14724 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 20:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djv@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from djv@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10532; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:36:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from djv) Message-Id: <199808070236.WAA10532@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: CCD newbie Q In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Aug 6, 98 02:31:30 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:36:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: djv@bedford.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: djv@bedford.net From: djv@bedford.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote > > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 djv@bedford.net wrote: > > > Recently, filled with ccd-zeal, I decided to give it a try, relying > > upon man ccd and man ccdconfig and a fearless attitude towards a certain > > disk. > > > > System: PPro 200, 2.2.6R, scsi disk. (Seagate st32550W on AIC-7880). > > Compiled new kernel, with 4 ccd pseudo devices. > > Did MAKEDEV ccd0, creating devices [r]ccd0[a-h]. Strange, there's > > no ccd0 or rccd0 devices... why not? > > > > Sliced the disk in twain, approximately 1GB each. (Not identical). > > Why are you doing this? You are going to _degrade_ performance since ccd > assumes it's working with separate disks. I'm doing it for fun and excitement. Hoping to bootstrap myself from the Darkness of Ignorance and Folly into the Light of Truth and Wisdom. Dave -- "Today, machines sit on our desks and spend the overwhelming majority of their cycles doing nothing more important than blinking a cursor." --William Dickens http://www.feedmag.com/html/feedline/98.07dickens/98.07dickens_master.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message