On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:23:33PM +0530, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> Yes, I think I shall wait for NetBSD-1.5.  BTW, I tried using raid myself
> on NetBSD-1.4.2 -- but I was confused abt "arrays" and "rows" and
> "columns" etc. which I was supposed to fill up in the configuration file.
> I had two primary partitions of 4 MB each (made just for this purpose) --
> which were wd0g and wd0h, and so I gave the number of rows as 1, nor of
> columns as 2 (after reading the manpage), and RAID 1, and tried
> configuring it.  But, the kernel just gave a whole screenful of error
> messages (abt the columns and rows being wrong or something like that).  I
> left it after that.
> 
> But, I went through an bsdtoday article pointed out to me by a
> fellow-poster, and in that it says I should first mark the partitions I
> want to use for RAID1 as "RAID."  I haven't checked up to see it it works,
> but if that's how we are to do things, how come the manpage doesn't
> mention it. (Coz as far as I think, the steps I took and what the article
> says are ditto except on this point).  I hope you would advise me on this
> point.
> 
> I can pass along the errors that I got (if syslogd has recorded it), and
> also my config files if you need.

Well, try again with partition type 'RAID' and see if it works :)

> 
> Err, I think I made a mistake.  Does ccd support mirroring ?  ccd for
> OpenBSD has this option in its manpage; ccd for NetBSD-1.4.2 does not.

No, mirroring was removed from ccd when RAIDframe was integrated, because 
ccd's mirroring was broken and RAIDframe does a much better job.

> I guess my question should have been abt RAID 1, instead of ccd.  But
> still, I am not clear as to what you have suggested. What do you mean
> declare a new partition ?  Make a disklabel entry for it, or what ... ?

If you already have the prartitions you want to mirror, just edit the
disklabel (disklabel -e) and change the type to RAID.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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