Hi, I've just built a machine with a vinum root successfully. All vinum sets show that they are up and working. There are two ATA disks in a RAID1 root formation.
Some questions? 1. The set has just failed completely (sorry it isn't up and working now) on the first reboot. It is possible to bring the machine up from the primary disk with no problems but any attempt to start the mirror drive causes a panic with a "hardware error" although checking it with bsdlabel shows the partition table is intact. Any ideas? the drive is fine - i've pulled it and tested it and it's fine. It's booting using BootMgr. I've killed it completely now by reloading the vinum config twice. so it's out of action permanently. I did make sure that there was enough space at the start of the disk for the vinum info to survive. 2. Speed. The vinum set is a "concat" disk. The read performance was really slow (visibly so). Can you boot off a striped volume and will it benefit me at all making it a striped volume at all rather than a concat? hardware: SIL3112 SATA RAID controller. 2x 80Gb Seagate barracuda ATA disks (ad4, ad6) FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE config: cant provide this - it won't boot any more. Any ideas? Or any good resources on setting up a RAID1 root disk??? Cheers, - Chris. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
