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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:48:11 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAID 1 configuration failure(Provider Too Small)
Message-ID:  <20070705184811.GA950@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <468D3C0B.8070203@miralink.com>
References:  <468D3C0B.8070203@miralink.com>

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
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> I'm trying to setup a 2 disk RAID 1 on my Dell PE 1850 between two identi=
cal Seagate SCSI drives with the howto at:=20
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
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> I am able to convert my root drive(da0) to geom and reboot just fine.  I =
am failing when I run:
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> |*gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da1*|
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> The second step of converting the mirror drive of my RAID1 (da1) fails wi=
th the same "Provider da1 too small" error no matter what I attempt to do. =
 The drives are=20
> reporting exactly the same size according to fdisk(see below).  Any ideas=
 here?

fdisk? You are operating on raw disks, so it doesn't matter what
fdisk(8) reports. Compare disk sizes with diskinfo(8).

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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