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From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com>
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	"'Jerry McAllister'" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Cc: 'Andrea Venturoli' <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>,
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Subject: RE: Software RAID1
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason King
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:27 AM
> To: Jerry McAllister
> Cc: Andrea Venturoli; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Software RAID1
> 
> 
> Ok, I made the correction and I'm still getting these errors:
> 
> mail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=79
> dd: /dev/da0: Operation not permitted
> mail# gmirror configure -a gm0
> mail# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0
> Cannot access provider da0.
> 
> You can see from the above what section I am working on. It 
> doesn't make
> sense to me. I'm following the instructions verbatim. I only 
> created one
> slice and one partition. Any other ideas?
> 
> Jason

Please post the relevant portions of dmesg so that we can see what
hardware (disks and controllers) you've got.

-gayn