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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:23:01 -0500
From:      Ben Williams <benwilliams@instantemail.net>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Pete <pete-freebsd-questions@toscano.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re[2]: "amnesiac" is disklabel?
Message-ID:  <193178698594.20030203022301@instantemail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030203065952.GK11468@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> <130175759368.20030203013402@instantemail.net> <20030203065952.GK11468@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Monday, February 3, 2003, 1:59:52 AM, you wrote:

GgL> 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.

GgL> This isn't a hardware issue.

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Ok. I haven't had the time/need to use vinum yet so I wasn't sure if
this was possibly an esoteric FBSD error.

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