From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 16:21: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84FF14EE5; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA83706; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:50:34 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:50:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Zachary M. Smith" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: IBM DNES-309170 LVD Problems Message-ID: <19991229105034.S1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: 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 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 [moved to -questions; this isn't SCSI material] On Sunday, 26 December 1999 at 22:51:31 -0500, Zachary M. Smith wrote: > I just purchased three IBM DNES-309170 drives and planned on using Vinum > to configure them in a RAID 0 and/or 5 setup. I have read a bit a vinum > and now I am trying to get the drives ready to be used in a few simple > vinum tests. however, i am running into some problems that i am hoping > you folks can help me with. > > 1. I can create FDISK partitions on the disk just fine. Once I get an > FDISK partition setup, I try to use disklabel to change the partition type > to vinum, but when i try to write the changes to the label, disklabel > tells me "operation not supported by device" From what you show below, you're running disklabel against /dev/da0. This is not correct; you should run it against the raw complete partition /dev/rda0c. The distinction between /dev/da0c and /dev/rda0c will go away in 4.0, but the distinction between /dev/da0c and /dev/da0 remains important. disklabel gives you a shorthand way to do this: 'disklabel da0'. > 2. I have also tried to create slices in my FDISK partition just to test > the drive, but I am unable to create slices. I get the error > "Device rda0s1c: name slot allocation failed (Errno=17)" I haven't seen this one. It's probably a result of earlier errors. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. 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