From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 6:44:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78347153B5 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 06:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA09724; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:39:27 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id PAA23951; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:36:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA09105; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:23:02 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA09171; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:34:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37D9086E.E75952C3@alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:32:30 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice requested... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > Folks, [SNIP] > The second problem is that once I ignore the particular failing > device and try to create a vinum RAID-5 logical disk across the other > three similar devices (which seem to work okay -- fdisk works, > disklabel works, etc...), I get a kernel panic and crash dump. I'm > wondering if I should try switching from 3.2-RELEASE (what I'm > currently running) and go to the latest snapshot of 3.2-STABLE, > 3.2-RC, or perhaps even all the way to 4.0-CURRENT? IIRC Vinum RAID-5 functionality is only present in 3.3 and 4.0 : you will have to upgrade your machine. TfH > > Alternatively, if this problem is likely to be caused by the > failing device (even though I'm not including it in the attempted > configuration), then perhaps I should work out all the hardware > problems first, before I try working with vinum+RAID-5+softupdates? > > Thanks for any advice you may be able to provide! > > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ____________________________________________________________________ > |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| > |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| > |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| > |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| > \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ > Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. > Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message