Hello, and thank you for your reply...
Quoting Holger Kipp <h...@alogis.com>:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:48:00AM -0700, Chris H wrote:
Greetings,
I'm attempting to upgrade one of our servers to 6.4 (from 6.2)
Before doing so I need to stripe 3 identical drives on the
same SCSI port into one drive, the drives are on an LSI controller
with 2 ports:
[..]
However, when I attempt to stripe the 3 unused drives, I recieve an
error regarding da2:
gstripe label -v st0 /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2
GEOM_STRIPE: Device st0 created (id=2607126992).
GEOM_STRIPE: Disk da0 attached to st0.
Metadata value stored on /dev/da0.
GEOM_STRIPE: Disk da1 attached to st0.
Metadata value stored on /dev/da1.
GEOM_STRIPE: Disk da2 attached to st0.
GEOM_STRIPE: Device st0 activated.
GEOM_STRIPE: Cannot add disk da2c to st0 (error=17).
Metadata value stored on /dev/da2.
I blanked the 3 drives prior to attempting any of this, and it's
on a fresh reboot. I'm afraid I don't know how to proceed. Is it
a problem with gstripe(8)? I /really/ need to stripe these drives
so as to upgrade the system.
Can you check if you have any fdisk metadata on either of your disks?
Especially as da0, da1, da2 are attached to st0 without problems,
but then GEOM_STRIPE complains about da2c (which looks like a partition
entry)...
I cheated, and went into sysinstall > custom > partition
chose each of da0, da1, and da2
pressed "f" then "no" then "yes". Which forced a "dangerously" dedicated
disk. I also chose "w" on all occasions, and each time the response indicated
Successfully written to disk. I then bailed out of sysinstall, then went
back, and deleted the partitions, and again, chose "w". Which also indicated
"Successfully written to disk". I then bailed out of sysinstall.
Having felt the disks were all now clean, I proceeded with the command:
gstripe label -v st0 /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2
...well, you know the rest of the story. :)
Is this not a good (the best) direction to take?
Thank you again for your reply.
--Chris H
Mind you, this is just a wild guess from my side ;-)
Regards,
Holger
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