From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 18:42: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B30914CD3 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 18:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA26817; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:11:23 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA14058; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:11:22 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990308131121.D490@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:11:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm missing something on vinum References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Eric J. Schwertfeger on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:40:46PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 5 March 1999 at 16:40:46 -0800, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > I've gone through the archives, and the only other person that has had > this problem was using raw disks (/etc/da1, etc). I'm not sure what you mean by this. /dev/da1 and so on are cooked disks (block devices), not raw disks. Vinum requires the block device. The system, not vinum, has pretty strict requirements in this regard. > Basically, I'm using vinum on 3.1-RELEASE, with a 4GB boot drive and 3 9GB > data drives, using vinum to stripe the three drives, and I can make > everything work, except that when I reboot (or even before I reboot, > actually), a > > vinum read /dev/da1s1e /dev/da2s1e /dev/da3s1e > > does nothing, with a kernel message "vinum: no drives found" message > printed out. As Bruce Mah pointed out, you should reference the slice, not the partition. > I noticed in the man pages that the examples use dedicated disk mode, is > that actually a requirement? Again, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean compatibility slices (/dev/da1 instead of /dev/da1s1)? No, there's no such requirement. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message