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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:55:01 +0200
From: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
To: Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com>
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Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: gvinum startup problems
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Daniel Eriksson wrote:

> One of my servers boot off of SCSI, and has a gvinum array consisting of
> 4 x 120GB ATA disks in RAID-0 configuration. When loading gvinum through
> "/boot/loader.conf", the tasting of providers seems to be out of whack,
> and the array always comes up broken with one subdisk missing. When
> loading gvinum manually, the array always comes up properly without any
> problems.
>
> All the individual disks are probed properly during startup, but for
> some reason gvinum does not taste all 4 disks if it loads through
> "/boot/loader.conf".

Interesting... on a fresh CURRENT, the problem should be the other way 
round... :-)

Have you tried setting kern.geom.debugflags=1 at the loader prompt?  It 
might give a hint as to why one disk is missing.

thanks,
le

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