Hi Alex,

 On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:18:37PM -0400, Alex Dumitriu wrote: 
> What do your disklabels look like for the five disks in question?


Here is the disklabel for sd5; sd1-5 are all the same

total sectors: 142264000
rpm: 10025
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

7 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a: 142264000         0       RAID                     # (Cyl.      0 -  47997*)
 d: 142264000         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -  47997*)
 g:     16002        63    unknown                     # (Cyl.      0*-      5*)

> 
> Also, you said that was the `tail` of the errors. Does it complain
> similarly for sd1a through sd4a, or only for sd5a?

 Yes, it does the same for sd1a throuh sd5a. I will paste below, I suppose I could have clarified that more ;)

 I'll paste the entire output here;

Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: raid0: Ignoring /dev/sd1a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: raid0: Component /dev/sd2a being configured at col: 1
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Column: 24 Num Columns: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Version: 0 Serial Number: 0 Mod Counter: 73
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Clean: No Status: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Row out of alignment for: /dev/sd2a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Column out of alignment for: /dev/sd2a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Number of columns do not match for: /dev/sd2a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: /dev/sd2a is not clean!
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: raid0: Component /dev/sd3a being configured at col: 2
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Column: 24 Num Columns: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Version: 0 Serial Number: 0 Mod Counter: 73
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Clean: No Status: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Row out of alignment for: /dev/sd3a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Column out of alignment for: /dev/sd3a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Number of columns do not match for: /dev/sd3a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: /dev/sd3a is not clean!
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: raid0: Component /dev/sd4a being configured at col: 3
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Column: 24 Num Columns: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Version: 0 Serial Number: 0 Mod Counter: 73
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Clean: No Status: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Row out of alignment for: /dev/sd4a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Column out of alignment for: /dev/sd4a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Number of columns do not match for: /dev/sd4a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: /dev/sd4a is not clean!
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: raid0: Component /dev/sd5a being configured at col: 4
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Column: 24 Num Columns: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Version: 0 Serial Number: 0 Mod Counter: 73
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd:          Clean: No Status: 0
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Row out of alignment for: /dev/sd5a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Column out of alignment for: /dev/sd5a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: Number of columns do not match for: /dev/sd5a
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: /dev/sd5a is not clean!
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: raid0: There were fatal errors
Jun  4 17:37:18 orange /netbsd: RAIDFRAME: failed rf_ConfigureDisks with 22


> 
> Finally, did you run raidctl -I and -i as per raidctl(8) before
> running the subsequent raidctl -c

 Aaahhh, looks like -I was the step I was missing!


 Thanks alot, Alex!

-Bri