Hi, Ihas following System dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Tue Nov 30 14:26:29 CET 2004 root@pdc.sarcom.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYGENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel Pentium III (993.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x686 Stepping = 6 Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 1342169088 (1310712K bytes) config> en apm0 config> q avail memory = 1299566592 (1269108K bytes) Changing APIC ID for IO APIC #0 from 0 to 2 on chip Changing APIC ID for IO APIC #1 from 0 to 3 on chip Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #1 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000 io1 (APIC): apic id: 3, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec01000 Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0564000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc056409c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 11 entries at 0xc00fc320 npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge> on motherboard IOAPIC #1 intpin 15 -> irq 2 IOAPIC #1 intpin 1 -> irq 10 IOAPIC #1 intpin 0 -> irq 11 pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=0962)> at device 2.0 on pci0 IOAPIC #1 intpin 14 -> irq 13 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xfcfff000-0xf cffffff irq 13 at device 6.0 on pci1 aic7880: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs aac0: <Dell PERC 2/Si> mem 0xf4000000-0xf7ffffff irq 2 at device 2.1 on pci0 aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 54MB cache memory, no battery support aac0: Kernel 2.8-0, Build 6089, S/N c10d0 aac0: Supported Options=2558<DATA64,HOSTTIME,WINDOW4GB,SOFTERR,SGMAP64> xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec80-0xecff mem 0xfe103000-0xfe10 307f irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:d0:09:69 miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0 xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xec40-0xec7f mem 0xfe000000-0xfe0ffff f,0xfe102000-0xfe102fff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:b0:d0:ab:58:dd inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus1 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: <ATI model 4759 graphics accelerator> at 14.0 isab0: <ServerWorks IB6566 PCI to ISA bridge> at device 15.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfe100000-0xfe100fff irq 5 at device 15.2 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: (0x1166) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pcib2: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge> on motherboard IOAPIC #1 intpin 12 -> irq 14 IOAPIC #1 intpin 8 -> irq 16 IOAPIC #1 intpin 4 -> irq 17 pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2 isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2200 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xef000000-0xef 000fff irq 14 at device 6.0 on pci2 xl1: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xd880-0xd8ff mem 0xef001400-0xef00 147f irq 16 at device 10.0 on pci2 xl1: Ethernet address: 00:50:04:ed:af:2f miibus2: <MII bus> on xl1 xlphy1: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus2 xlphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl2: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xd800-0xd87f mem 0xef001000-0xef00 107f irq 17 at device 14.0 on pci2 xl2: Ethernet address: 00:50:04:53:9e:63 miibus3: <MII bus> on xl2 xlphy2: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus3 xlphy2: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc9000-0xccfff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0 ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle aacd0: <RAID 0/1> on aac0 aacd0: 17354MB (35542272 sectors) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s1a da0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da1 at isp0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 cd0: <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:466 1.06> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present da2 at isp0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da2: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da3 at isp0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 da3: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da3: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da3: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da4 at isp0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 da4: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da4: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da4: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da5 at isp0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 da5: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da5: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da5: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da6 at isp0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 da6: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da6: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da6: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da7 at isp0 bus 0 target 7 lun 0 da7: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da7: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da7: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da8 at isp0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 da8: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da8: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da8: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da9 at isp0 bus 0 target 9 lun 0 da9: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da9: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da9: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da10 at isp0 bus 0 target 10 lun 0 da10: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da10: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da10: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da11 at isp0 bus 0 target 11 lun 0 da11: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da11: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da11: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da12 at isp0 bus 0 target 12 lun 0 da12: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da12: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da12: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da13 at isp0 bus 0 target 13 lun 0 da13: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da13: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da13: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da14 at isp0 bus 0 target 14 lun 0 da14: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da14: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da14: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da15 at isp0 bus 0 target 15 lun 0 da15: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da15: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da15: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da16 at isp0 bus 0 target 16 lun 0 da16: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da16: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da16: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da17 at isp0 bus 0 target 17 lun 0 da17: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da17: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da17: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da18 at isp0 bus 0 target 18 lun 0 da18: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da18: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da18: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da19 at isp0 bus 0 target 19 lun 0 da19: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da19: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da19: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da20 at isp0 bus 0 target 20 lun 0 da20: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da20: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da20: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da21 at isp0 bus 0 target 21 lun 0 da21: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da21: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da21: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da22 at isp0 bus 0 target 22 lun 0 da22: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da22: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da22: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da23 at isp0 bus 0 target 23 lun 0 da23: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da23: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da23: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da24 at isp0 bus 0 target 24 lun 0 da24: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da24: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da24: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da25 at isp0 bus 0 target 25 lun 0 da25: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da25: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da25: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da26 at isp0 bus 0 target 26 lun 0 da26: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da26: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da26: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) da27 at isp0 bus 0 target 27 lun 0 da27: <SEAGATE ST336704FC FA55> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da27: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da27: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) WARNING: / was not properly dismounted aac0: **Monitor** ID(0:01:0) Timeout detected on cmd[0x2a] aac0: **Monitor** SCSI Channel[0]: Timeout Detected On 1 Command(s) My vinum.conf #first7 drive disk0 device /dev/da0s1h drive disk1 device /dev/da2s1h drive disk2 device /dev/da4s1h drive disk3 device /dev/da6s1h drive disk4 device /dev/da8s1h drive disk5 device /dev/da10s1h drive disk6 device /dev/da12s1h #next 7 drive disk7 device /dev/da1s1h drive disk8 device /dev/da3s1h drive disk9 device /dev/da5s1h drive disk10 device /dev/da7s1h drive disk11 device /dev/da9s1h drive disk12 device /dev/da11s1h drive disk13 device /dev/da13s1h volume big plex name big.p0 org striped 512k sd name big.p0.sd0 drive drive0 size 0 sd name big.p0.sd1 drive drive1 size 0 sd name big.p0.sd2 drive drive2 size 0 sd name big.p0.sd3 drive drive3 size 0 sd name big.p0.sd4 drive drive4 size 0 sd name big.p0.sd5 drive drive5 size 0 sd name big.p0.sd6 drive drive6 size 0 plex name big.p1 org striped 512k sd name big.p1.sd0 drive drive7 size 0 sd name big.p1.sd1 drive drive8 size 0 sd name big.p1.sd2 drive drive9 size 0 sd name big.p1.sd3 drive drive10 size 0 sd name big.p1.sd4 drive drive11 size 0 sd name big.p1.sd5 drive drive12 size 0 sd name big.p1.sd6 drive drive13 size 0 With this configuration vinum crashes the Machine with this Message: 15: drive disk12 device /dev/da11s1h ** 15 : Invalid argument If i let the last 4 disks out of my Configuration so vinum makes all right. It sounds like vinum cannot right use more devices as 10 da[0-9]s1h is ok da[1-2][0-9]s1h is not. Ah, my Target is to build a RAID10 Mirror of Stripes might be a count problem? Sorry thats are all error-messages that i can see. thanks for your interest and help