There was a recent change to the twe driver which broke vinum on drives connected through twe controllers. I have no way to know which interpretation of this flag is "right". For now, I've fixed it by removing the test from vinum but the more recent change was in twe. twe added (August): ----------- devstat_add_entry(&sc->twed_stats, "twed", device_get_unit(dev), TWE_BLOCK_S IZE, DEVSTAT_NO_ORDERED_TAGS, DEVSTAT_TYPE_STORARRAY | DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_OTHER, DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_ARRAY); the DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_OTHER was the culprit here. vinum added (June): ------------------- if ((((stat->device_type & DEVSTAT_TYPE_MASK) == DEVSTAT_TYPE_DIRECT ) /* disk device */ || ((stat->device_type & DEVSTAT_TYPE_MASK) == DEVSTAT_TYPE_STO RARRAY)) /* storage array */ /* &&((stat->device_type & DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_MASK) != DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_ OTHER) */ /* and not md */ &&((stat->device_type & DEVSTAT_TYPE_PASS) == 0) /* and not passthro ugh */ &&((stat->device_name[0] != '\0'))) { /* and it has a name ---------------------------------- I had gotten Greg to add the STORARRAY earlier because it was used in the twe driver instead of direct, even for a JBOD drive. IF_OTHER in vinum is used to indicate md device; clearly its use in the twe driver is for something else. I have no way to know which is "right" but one of these interpretations doesn't get along with the other... This broke my nntp server rather badly last night in what should have been an easy upgrade from 4.8-p13 to 4.9-rel :-( -- Pete