vinum limits disk size to 255MB

2004-12-05 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi all, I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI drives to create a vinum volume. For some reason vinum believes the disks hold a mere 255MB. This is what vinum sets the subdisk length if I specify 0m as

Re: vinum limits disk size to 255MB

2004-12-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 0:28:01 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI drives to create a vinum volume. For some reason vinum believes the disks hold

Re: vinum limits disk size to 255MB

2004-12-05 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: You don't say whether you're using vinum or gvinum. I've never seen this problem before, but if you're getting incorrect subdisk sizes, try specifying them explicitly: sd length 35840952s drive ibma I wonder whether the problem is related to