May or may not be related but I found with 4.0 that when I edited the 
disklabel to change the type to vinum the in-core copy was not written 
although the on-disk copy was, giving vinum a problem.  Fix was to 
repartition each disk in the array with a true partition entry.

Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Thursday,  1 June 2000 at 23:56:44 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> >
> > I have 2 maxtor 40GB's running off a Promise FastTrak 66 under 4.0-stable,
> > and it's working fine, except for one teensy problem.
> >
> > vinum (striping them), apparently overwrote whatever the promise uses to
> > track them as part of a stripe set...  So on reboot, I have to hit an F2
> > configure, because the promise thinks the array is unconfigured...
> 
> Interesting.  Can you find out where the controller keeps its config?
> You probably would have been OK if you had left some space free at the
> beginning or the end of the drive.  That's probably worth a word of
> warning somewhere.
> 
> Greg
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