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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 15:14:20 +0200
From:      "Meissner, Norbert" <norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   vinum-problem
Message-ID:  <A991441F7BF5D111B2BB0008C7A410113D0722@sutgxs05.str.daimlerchrysler.com>

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Hi all,

last weekend i tried to get vinum working for me. Everytime I tried a
'create' it crashes. Maybe someone can help me.
My hardware is a 486 DX, Adaptec 1542B, 3 SCSI-Disks (2x1GB(da0, da1) =
and
1x2GB(da2)). The software is FBSD 3.1 RELEASE, residing on da0. I =
started
with reading the manpages and the vinum article from greg lehey at
www.lemis.com. Now i decided to build a concat volume because greg =
wrote
that this could be expanded later. Just for testing purposes i tried to
build a  one slice volume, just as written in the article on page 9. =
greg
uses the partition(?) /dev/da3h and so i run into the first problem. =
whether
/stand/sysinstall nor disklabel as described in the handbook lets me =
make
this. everytime i get something like da1s1e. i gave up on this and =
choosed
to start over. here's a transcript of what i've done

dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/rda1 bs=3D1k count=3D1  # worked, dd tells =
about 1024
bytes in and out
/stand/sysinstall
select post-installation
select fdisk, da1
all space in one partition=20
dedicated disk question  ->NO					  # I've
answered NO to get a dedicated disk, no other OS is on the machine
q
# get out of here
select disklabel
all space in one slice
toggle newfs
# don't newfs the slice
w
# writes partition and slice to disk
error-message that it can't mount			  # the handbook
says ignore
lot of escapes
# get out of here

at this time i have a slice named da1s1e. if i newfs it, i can mount it =
(i
tried this later to be sure, that it isn't a disk failure). as the next =
step
i wrote a config file (vino.conf):
  drive sl1 device /dev/wd1s1e
  volume adder
  plex org concat
  sd length 512m drive sl1                  #the first time i tried =
1024m,
later other other values=B4, all failures

after saving the file, i've done=20
kldload vinum
klstat (yes, it's there!)
vinum
vinum->create vino.conf

 CRASH-BOOM-BANG=20

vinum told me that the drive is faulty, crashed and other things i just
don't remember. the next thing i did was resetconfig. after one or to
minutes (i had to press return several times), it told me that the
configuration is obliterated. and so i started over and over with other
partition sizes, other parameters, disklabel from the command line =
(didn't
work for me). Some hours later i decided to ask someone who has some
knowledge about these things.=20

Is there someone???


Greetings from Germany
Norbert



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