Nick Holland wrote (04/21/09 21:39): > I looked. Your "advice" does not tell you to newfs your raw RAID > partition. Go read it again. > > I REALLY recommend UNDERSTANDING how this works, not just blindly > following someone's recipe.
You're right -- on both counts. Emailing the list was an attempt to get from the "blindly following" stage to the "understanding" stage. Now the that newfs issue is cleared up, here's another question: the author of a page I cited writes, "In my experience I couldn't the 'a' partition to become of type FS_RAID." But according to my disklabel output, it looks like I was able to do this: # disklabel wd1 # Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 488392002 # /dev/rwd1c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: WDC WD2500AAJB-0 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 30401 total sectors: 488397168 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 488392002 63 RAID c: 488397168 0 unused 0 0
