From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 6:15:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from daimler-benz.com (pluto1.str.daimler-benz.com [53.122.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AA715098 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 06:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com) Received: by daimler-benz.com; id PAA04265; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:08:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from unknown(53.113.192.12) by pluto.daimler-benz.com via smap (V4.2) id xma004093; Mon, 10 May 99 15:07:58 +0200 Received: by S97H1H02 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:18:17 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Meissner, Norbert" To: freebsd-questions Subject: vinum-problem Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:14:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 +--------------------------------------------+ | _ _ __ __ _ | | | \| | | \/ |___(_)_______ _ ___ _ _ | | | .` |_ | |\/| / -_) (_-<_-< ' \/ -_) '_| | | |_|\_(_) |_| |_\___|_/__/__/_||_\___|_| | +--------------------------------------------+ > Mercedes-Benz Stra=DFe 137=20 > HPC G322 > 70546 Stuttgart > Tel: +49-711-1754664 > Fax: +49-711-178054664 > norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message