Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:13:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jking@informs.com (Jason King) Cc: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID1 Message-ID: <200509151613.j8FGDZJi009367@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <43298A51.8000901@informs.com>
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> > The instructions say to use ad0 and ad1 as the /dev names but those > devices don't exist on my server. The device names are da0 and da1. I'd > be glad to post anything you wish, but I don't know what the dmesg is, > or how I get it. Can you tell me where I can get that information? ado, ad1....adnn are IDE devices. da0, da1....dann are SCSI devices. Use whichever you have. ////jerry > > Jason > > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > > Jason King wrote: > > > >> I am having trouble with THESE instructions: > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > >> > >> I'm trying to create a RAID1 system with FreeBSD and the instructions > >> are not working. I'm getting this error: > >> > >> mail# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 > >> Cannot access provider da0. > >> > >> The command is trying to add the first disk /dev/da0 to the mirror gm0. > >> Has anyone else had success at creating a RAID1 mirror on FreeBSD. If > >> so, please let me know how you did it because these instructions are not > >> working at all. > > > > > > I used that tutorial on different machines and it has always worked. > > Maybe you have to substitute da0 with something else, that depends on > > your hardware. Can you provide a your dmesg at boot time? > > > > bye > > av. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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