Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:47:28 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID 1 configuration failure(Provider Too Small) Message-ID: <468D3CC0.4020708@miralink.com> In-Reply-To: <468D3C0B.8070203@miralink.com> References: <468D3C0B.8070203@miralink.com>
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Sean Bruno wrote: > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Adding the output of 'gmirror list' desdemona# gmirror list Geom name: gm0 State: COMPLETE Components: 1 Balance: round-robin Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 1639059843 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/gm0 Mediasize: 73407868416 (68G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r6w6e7 Consumers: 1. Name: da0 Mediasize: 73407868928 (68G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3049063106
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