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Subject: Re: gmirror prerequisite question
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> I've bought a secondry HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0.
> I want to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch),

you don't have to.

>but I want to know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for doing this operation.
>
> The command
>
> dmesg | grep Seagate
>
> Yields:
>
> ad4: 76319MB <Seagate ST380815AS 3.AAC> at ata2-master UDMA33
> ad6: 76319MB <Seagate ST380815AS 3.AAC> at ata3-master UDMA33
yes it is.