Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:50:57 -0500 From: Jason King <jking@informs.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID1 Message-ID: <43298A51.8000901@informs.com> In-Reply-To: <432980A4.4010508@netfence.it> References: <4329660E.5080601@informs.com> <432980A4.4010508@netfence.it>
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The instructions say to use ad0 and ad1 as the /dev names but those devices don't exist on my server. The device names are da0 and da1. I'd be glad to post anything you wish, but I don't know what the dmesg is, or how I get it. Can you tell me where I can get that information? Jason Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Jason King wrote: > >> I am having trouble with THESE instructions: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ >> >> I'm trying to create a RAID1 system with FreeBSD and the instructions >> are not working. I'm getting this error: >> >> mail# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 >> Cannot access provider da0. >> >> The command is trying to add the first disk /dev/da0 to the mirror gm0. >> Has anyone else had success at creating a RAID1 mirror on FreeBSD. If >> so, please let me know how you did it because these instructions are not >> working at all. > > > I used that tutorial on different machines and it has always worked. > Maybe you have to substitute da0 with something else, that depends on > your hardware. Can you provide a your dmesg at boot time? > > bye > av. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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