From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 1:15:26 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 01:15:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700B337B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 01:15:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eB49Ckd79171; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:42:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:42:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: marcd@internode.on.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: initialising vinum plex Message-ID: <20001204194246.H78854@echunga.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from marcd@internode.on.net on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:22:01PM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: grog@echunga.lemis.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 2 December 2000 at 12:22:01 +0000, marcd@internode.on.net wrote: > Hi, > > I was running 3 drives in a RAID5 configuration but I now want > to change it to using 2 drives concatendate. > > The create goes through fine but when I do a newfs -v I get an > in input/output error which is a sympton that I haven't initiallised > the plexes. No, that's not the case. > What is the correct syntax for the init command In the manual. > if I try init -w develop.s0.p0 I get the following error > vinum[519]: initiallising subdisk /dev/vinum/sd/develop.p0.s0 > can't initialize /dev/vinum/sd/develop.p0.so: device busy (16) > > and get booted out of the vinum program. The syntax is correct. The problem must be elsewhere. In my case, the problem is that you haven't submitted the information I ask for in http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. > I'm running 4.2-Stable on Epox socket A motherboard with Thunderbird 900. > The harddisks are all scsi attached to the a Tekram 390F controller. OK, no known problems there. I've run Vinum on pretty much that configuration. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message