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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:44:49 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel?
Message-ID:  <20030211041449.GR11182@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030211041102.GC19750@bubba.toscano.org>
References:  <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> <20030203053730.GI11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030204023044.GA4014@bubba.toscano.org> <20030211041102.GC19750@bubba.toscano.org>

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On Monday, 10 February 2003 at 23:11:02 -0500, Pete wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Pete wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday,  2 February 2003 at 13:50:20 -0500, Pete wrote:
>>>> What does this mean?  Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot
>>>> "disklabel -e" to set its fstype to "vinum".
>>>
>>> There must be some other reason for that.  Do you have any disk label
>>> at all?
>>
>> Yes, it does.  I can even mount /dev/ar2e because I had created a disk
>> label on it when it was attached as /dev/ar1 previously.
>>
>> The problem seems to be accessing /dev/ar2 with disklabel.  I've swapped
>> cables and cards.  I'm even currently using two cards (one ATA100 and
>> ATA133).  I've swapped the drives all around and the only constant
>> factor seems to be ar2.  With all three drives on one card (two master
>> and one slave) or spread between the two cards (all three masters), as
>> long as there were three drives, /dev/ar2 would be like this.
>>
>> Is the ar driver only limited to two devices?
>
> So it seems that there's a problem with more than two /dev/ar devices,
> or at least more than two Promise-based /dev/ar devices.  Does anyone
> know more about this or should I take this to freebsd-hackers?

Hmm, yes, that's a possibility.  -hackers won't help you there, but a
bug report might.

Greg
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