More than confusing, it made my gvinum raid5 array unuseable.oliverh said:FreeBSD tells you one thing, "hey I see your harddrive, but it talks nonsense to me". That's confusing like mickey said, but it's a known "problem", imho some kind of a bug.
I had the warning for one of the 3 disks of the array and when trying to access the volume the system was freezing for a variable length. Downgrading to 7.2 solved the problem so I didn't investigate further.