Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:44:27 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: RAID 1 configuration failure(Provider Too Small) Message-ID: <468D3C0B.8070203@miralink.com>
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I'm trying to setup a 2 disk RAID 1 on my Dell PE 1850 between two identical Seagate SCSI drives with the howto at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html I am able to convert my root drive(da0) to geom and reboot just fine. I am failing when I run: |*gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da1*| The second step of converting the mirror drive of my RAID1 (da1) fails with the same "Provider da1 too small" error no matter what I attempt to do. The drives are reporting exactly the same size according to fdisk(see below). Any ideas here? desdemona# fdisk /dev/da1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> desdemona# fdisk /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 143363997 (70001 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED>
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