Subject: Re: documentation on CCD disk devices (fwd)
To: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/02/1999 18:04:12
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Thilo Manske wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 03:50:36PM -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 had my problems with ccd and it's documentation myself...
> 
> >From memory, here's a short how-to:
> 
> 1. disklabel all disks:
>    create the partitions you want to concatenate, make
>    sure there's an offset to the beginning (I think 16 secros is
>    more than enough - but I'm not sure).
>    I don't know if the type matters, I've used "normal"
>    4.2BSD patitions.
> 

Apparently the problem was the lack of offset at the beginning of the
partitions on the host drives.  I just newfs'd & mounted the partition and
it shows up as 32gb of space.