Vinum error "Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument"

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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On Friday, 19 December 2003 at 17:34:20 +0100, Marc Smits wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex
> from 2 new 80Gb disks.
>
> Here's my vinum-description:
>  drive a device /dev/ad2s1e
>  drive b device /dev/ad3s1e
>  volume stripe0
>  plex org striped 256k
>  sd length 78159m drive a
>  sd length 78159m drive b
>
> When I run 'vinum create vinum.conf' The message I get is:
>     1: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e
>  ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument
>     2: drive b device /dev/ad3s1e
>  ** 2 Can't initialize drive b: Invalid argument
>  0 drives:
>  1 volumes:
>  V stripe0               State: down     Plexes:       1 Size: 152GB
>
>  1 plexes:
>  P stripe0.p0          S State: faulty   Subdisks:     2 Size: 152GB
>
>  2 subdisks:
>  S stripe0.p0.s0         State: crashed  PO:        0  B Size: 76GB
>  S stripe0.p0.s1         State: crashed  PO:      256 kB Size: 76GB
>
> I used sysinstall to fdisk and label the partitions.

How?  IIRC sysinstall won't create a Vinum partition for you.  You
need to use disklabel, as described in the man page.

> What do need to do diffrent to get vinum to use the partitions?

That depends on exactly what you've done, but I think it's what I said
above.

Greg
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