In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, n0go013 writes : >On 04.10-18:27, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message n0go013 writes : >> >On 04.10-15:40, fergus wrote: >> > > On 04.10-14:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > > [...] >> > > > I suspect vinum uses this sysctl to get an inventory of disks in >> > > > the system, so can I get you to try again making sure you have >> > > > rev. 1.20 of src/sys/geom/geom_disk.c ? >> > [...] >> > > i'll let you know the test results when i have some. >> > >> > same results -- can't initialise any drives. i think the example below >> > points more directly to the issue but i'm pretty sure it is because the >> > direct read from the disk does not return a valid disklabel. without a >> > 'vinum' partition entry vinum spews. >> >> I have no idea how vinum does this or something else, but clearly >> something is not done the right way in vinum... > >apparently by allocating a bio header via 'geteblk' and calling the >DEV_STRATEGY macro. not that it means anything to me but probably to >you it does (well i get the idea but . . .). > >what is the correct way to read the disklabel ? i'll hack around and >see if i can't clean up this and the other pieces of direct IO.
I would need to look at the code to be able to tell, I don't have time for that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
