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If memory serves me right, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" wrote:

> 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.
> 
> I noticed in the man pages that the examples use dedicated disk mode, is
> that actually a requirement?

Eric--

I just ran into the same situation this week.  You need to do:

# vinum read /dev/da1s1 /dev/da2s1 /dev/da3s1

In other words, don't specify the partitions you are using for your vinum 
drives, just the slices on which those drives live.  Once I did this, 
everything worked quite nicely.

When I mentioned this difficulty by email, Greg Lehey also informed me (and 
I'm assuming that he won't mind me posting two sentences from a private email 
to me) that:

> Note, BTW, that 'vinum start' with no parameters will now DTRT.  If it
> doesn't work for you, pick up
> ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/vinum/vinum-3.1-STABLE.tar.gz and use that.

Hope this helps,

Bruce.



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