From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 22:59:58 2003 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 22EA237B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:59:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F1643F3F for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A063F51972; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:29:52 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:29:52 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ben Williams Cc: Pete , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel? Message-ID: <20030203065952.GK11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> <130175759368.20030203013402@instantemail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <130175759368.20030203013402@instantemail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 3 February 2003 at 1:34:02 -0500, Ben Williams wrote: > Sunday, February 2, 2003, 1:50:20 PM, you wrote: > > P> Hello... I have three hard drives in my system. One of them (the first) > P> is the system disk. I'm trying to get the other two ready to be a > P> mirrored volume. No matter which of the last two drives is last, that > P> one always is listed as "amnesiac" when I do a disklabel on it: > > P> ============================== > P> [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 > P> # /dev/ar2: > P> type: unknown > P> disk: amnesiac > > Maybe I'm being obvious here but have you tried a different cable > and/or controller? > > First step: eliminate hardware as the cause. This isn't a hardware issue. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message