hi: I figured since raidframe was in FreeBSD, it would be a good chance to try it. I've already used vinum and ccd. I run it in Vmware. I remember seeing that raidframe is still work in progress. Maybe something is wrong with my setup. Or maybe it's broken ATM and I should give it a shot later.
thank you all for your time, elliot FreeBSD current-x86.DOMAIN 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Feb 16 19:45:31 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/current/src/sys/VMWARE i386 # cat raid START array 1 3 0 START disks /dev/da0s1e /dev/da1s1e /dev/da2s1e START layout 32 1 1 5 START queue fifo 100 # raidctl -c /root/raid raid0 RAIDFRAME: protectedSectors is 64 Waiting for DAG engine to start panic: lockmgr: thread 0xc8f30c94, not exclusive lock holder 0xc8f31620 unlocking Debugger("panic") Stopped at Debugger+0x54: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 db> trace Debugger(c05432fc,c05ebbc0,c05419e2,d8527864,1) at Debugger+0x54 panic(c05419e2,c8f30c94,c05419cc,c8f31620,c8f30c94) at panic+0xab lockmgr(c8f59ce8,6,c8f59c34,c8f30c94,d85278a8) at lockmgr+0x49e vop_stdunlock(d85278d0,d85278b4,c031b048,d85278d0,d8527910) at vop_stdunlock+0x2f vop_defaultop(d85278d0,d8527910,c029c59c,d85278d0,d85278cc) at vop_defaultop+0x18 spec_vnoperate(d85278d0,d85278cc,0,c8f7b180,3) at spec_vnoperate+0x18 raidlookup(c8f82800,c8f30c94,d852794c,c05ecc40,258) at raidlookup+0x18c raid_getcomponentsize(c8f69000,0,0,c8f69000,0) at raid_getcomponentsize+0x47 rf_ConfigureDisk(c8f69000,c8b7f64c,c8f82800,0,0) at rf_ConfigureDisk+0x96 rf_ConfigureDisks(c8f6910c,c8f69000,c8b7f000,1e7,1b7) at rf_ConfigureDisks+0xd1 rf_Configure(c8f69000,c8b7f000,0,d8527afc,c0374c53) at rf_Configure+0xe60 raidctlioctl(c8bdc400,80047201,d8527c54,3,c8f31620) at raidctlioctl+0x358 spec_ioctl(d8527b5c,d8527c28,c03b2071,d8527b5c,d8527b70) at spec_ioctl+0x16e spec_vnoperate(d8527b5c,d8527b70,c034a04d,c05ecc40,c0565a60) at spec_vnoperate+0x18 vn_ioctl(c8c08000,80047201,d8527c54,c8d0a480,c8f31620) at vn_ioctl+0x1a1 ioctl(c8f31620,d8527d10,c055d207,407,3) at ioctl+0x479 syscall(2f,2f,2f,4,3) at syscall+0x28e Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1d --- syscall (54, FreeBSD ELF32, ioctl), eip = 0x804bdff, esp = 0xbfbf7cfc, ebp = 0xbfbf7d18 --- db> reset current-x86# disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device current-x86# disklabel -r /dev/da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 500 sectors/unit: 1024000 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: 1024000 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 499) e: 1023936 32 raid # (Cyl. 0*- 499*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message