From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 23:23: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9897537B401; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from flatiron.instantemail.net (naturalcom-gw.avl.rocketlauncher.net [209.95.78.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A569443F75; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:22:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benwilliams@instantemail.net) Received: from reliable-2000 (flatiron.instantemail.net [209.95.72.149]) by flatiron.instantemail.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA07598; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:22:58 GMT Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:23:01 -0500 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal Reply-To: Ben Williams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <193178698594.20030203022301@instantemail.net> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Pete Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re[2]: "amnesiac" is disklabel? In-Reply-To: <20030203065952.GK11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> <130175759368.20030203013402@instantemail.net> <20030203065952.GK11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Monday, February 3, 2003, 1:59:52 AM, you wrote: GgL> On Monday, 3 February 2003 at 1:34:02 -0500, Ben Williams wrote: >> Sunday, February 2, 2003, 1:50:20 PM, you wrote: >> >> P> Hello... I have three hard drives in my system. One of them (the first) >> P> is the system disk. I'm trying to get the other two ready to be a >> P> mirrored volume. No matter which of the last two drives is last, that >> P> one always is listed as "amnesiac" when I do a disklabel on it: >> >> P> ============================== >> P> [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 >> P> # /dev/ar2: >> P> type: unknown >> P> disk: amnesiac >> >> Maybe I'm being obvious here but have you tried a different cable >> and/or controller? >> >> First step: eliminate hardware as the cause. GgL> This isn't a hardware issue. GgL> Greg GgL> -- GgL> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. GgL> If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. GgL> For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html GgL> See complete headers for address and phone numbers Ok. I haven't had the time/need to use vinum yet so I wasn't sure if this was possibly an esoteric FBSD error. -- Ben mailto:benwilliams@instantemail.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message