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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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: >=20 > 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 >=20 > I am able to convert my root drive(da0) to geom and reboot just fine. I = am failing when I run: >=20 > |*gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da1*| >=20 >=20 > 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). --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGjTzrForvXbEpPzQRAnNLAKDBEMGzqnhMTtp/pv8Qn1OZ3L7q4wCeMc+/ pNB2hxGMTtkixUsEeL5Rem8= =osND -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--
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