From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 16:13:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0D3F516A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:13:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF53043D46 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:13:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j8FGDZBn009368; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:13:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j8FGDZJi009367; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:13:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200509151613.j8FGDZJi009367@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jking@informs.com (Jason King) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:13:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <43298A51.8000901@informs.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrea Venturoli , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:13:36 -0000 > > 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? ado, ad1....adnn are IDE devices. da0, da1....dann are SCSI devices. Use whichever you have. ////jerry > > 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" > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >