Subject: Re: problem initializing raid
To: rudolf <netbsd@eq.cz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/15/2005 23:00:15
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:20:25PM +0200, rudolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to initialize a raid device, but something in my setup must 
> be wrong. Here is a part of 'messages' log:
> [...]
> May 13 14:56:01 magambi /netbsd: wd3b: error reading fsbn 268230592 of 
> 268230592-268230719 (wd3 bn 268435455; cn 266305 tn 0 sn 15), retrying
> May 13 14:56:01 magambi /netbsd: wd3: (id not found)
> [...]
> I've 4 SATA Seagate disks connected to Silicon Image SATALink 3114 and 
> the machine is running few days old amd64 kernel 2.0_STABLE. I've tried 
> three of the disks in all possible combinations to make raid1 device 
> from two of them. The error is always the same including the number of 
> errorneous fsbn - '268230592'. I am definitely doing something wrong.

block number 268435455 is 0xfffffff. What model of seagate is it ?
Some of them requires to use LBA48 for sector 0xfffffff.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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