Re: kernel panic w/ ccd on 3.0

[Saad Kadhi <bsdguy@docisland.org>]

Yop,

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 12:46, Klaus Botschen wrote:
> Saad,
> 
> > ccd drops a brand new box into ddb upon execution of ccdconfig -C.
> 
> here's what Todd answered to me some days ago:
> 
> >Also note that the size of each partition in the ccd *must* be a
> >multiple of the interleave.  Neither wd0i not wd1a currently follows
> >this which will cause you all kinds of problems later on.
I saw that post before configuring/partitioning the disks :)

> 
> What does disklabel say?
I had to go back home to fetch the exact output of disklabel. Otherwise,
I made sure that all my partition sizes are multiple of 16 (given 1M =
1024k). 

> 
> BTW I had similar crashes; ccdconfig did it's job but then I wanted to put a 
> file system on ccd0c... so, after re-configuring the partitions and when 
> ccdconfig went fine, I had to do a fdisk -i ccd0,  then created ccd0a with 
"ccdconfig went fine, ..." is it a random stuff depending on weather
conditions ;) ? I mean, what conditions were there to let ccdconfig go
fine ? 

> the first cylinder left empty...
how do you leave that cylinder empty ? by choosing an offset ?

> 
> And I had much better results with an interleave of 64.
ok noted. But I got to get past the ccdconfig step.

TIA

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