Hi all, I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI drives to create a vinum volume.
For some reason vinum believes the disks hold a mere 255MB. This is what vinum sets the subdisk length if I specify "0m" as the length (meaning "use all available space" according to the manual). If I specify any larger size manually, vinum complains that there is "No space left on device" which strikes me odd. I *believe* that the fdisk and bsdlabel outputs reprinted below show that the disks are indeed 18G. According to my math, the appropriate size to specify in the vinum configuration would be 35566215s, that is the number of sectors of the smaller disks minus 265. I see only one minor problem: The disks are not identical, with da1 having a slightly larger capacity than da2 and da3. Can anyone throw me a ring here? Thanks, Markus fdisk da1 shows: ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2231 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2231 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 35840952 (17500 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 182/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> fdisk da2 or da3 show: ******* Working on device /dev/da2 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 35551782 (17359 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> bsdlabel -A da1 shows: # /dev/da1: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 2231 sectors/unit: 35843670 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 35843670 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit e: 35843670 0 vinum bsdlabel -A da2 or da3 show: # /dev/da2: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 2213 sectors/unit: 35566480 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 35566480 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit e: 35566480 0 vinum The vinum config file reads: drive ibma device /dev/da1s1e drive ibmb device /dev/da2s1e drive ibmc device /dev/da3s1e volume raid5 setupstate plex org concat sd length 0m drive ibma sd length 0m drive ibmb sd length 0m drive ibmc vinum -> create vinumconfig1 3 drives: D ibma State: up /dev/da1s1e A:0/256 MB (0%) D ibmb State: up /dev/da2s1e A:0/256 MB (0%) D ibmc State: up /dev/da3s1e A:0/256 MB (0%) 1 volumes: V raid5 State: up Plexes: 1 size: 767 MB 3 subdisks: S raid5.p0.s0 State: up D: ibma Size: 255MB S raid5.p0.s1 State: up D: ibmb Size: 255MB S raid5.p0.s2 State: up D: ibmc Size: 255MB uname -a shows: FreeBSD wutz.mininet 5.3-BETA7 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #0: Sat Oct 2 21:01:00 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"