Subject: Re: documentation on CCD disk devices (fwd)
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/02/1999 23:50:15
On Tue Nov 02 1999 at 15:50:36 -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> Is there any documentation (other than the man pages) on how to set up a
> ccd drive array under netbsd 1.4?
> 
> I'm attempting to set up a 4 drive array using /dev/sd1e thru /dev/sd4e,
> which are 4.2BSD filesystems on 8gb drives.
> 
> My /etc/ccd.conf file reads as this:
> 
> ccd0    16       none    /dev/sd1e /dev/sd2e /dev/sd3e /dev/sd4e
> 
> When I execute ccdconfig -C, I get "WARNING: ccd0: total sector size in
> disklabel (17772630) != the size of ccd (71088150)" in /var/log/messages.
> 
> disklabel -r ccd0 reports a SCSI drive with a whole disk c partition and
> an 8gb (17770260 sector) e partition.
> 
> newfs'ing /dev/ccd0e results in an 8gb filesystem.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated...thanks.

Does sd1e start right at the beginning of the disk? IIRC, that confuses
disklabel. If that's not the problem.. well.. I don't know. I can only
tell that it works like a charm here ;)

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