From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 14:51:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8D9EF16A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:51:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jking@informs.com) Received: from mail.informs.com (mail.informs.com [216.248.165.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0630C43D46 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:51:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jking@informs.com) Received: (qmail 37663 invoked by uid 1011); 15 Sep 2005 09:51:04 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.34 by mail.informs.com (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.86.2/1011. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.34):. Processed in 0.045212 secs); 15 Sep 2005 14:51:04 -0000 X-Antivirus-INFORMS-Mail-From: jking@informs.com via mail.informs.com X-Antivirus-INFORMS: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.34):. Processed in 0.045212 secs Process 37657) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.34?) (192.168.1.34) by mail.informs.com with SMTP; 15 Sep 2005 09:51:04 -0500 Message-ID: <43298A51.8000901@informs.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:50:57 -0500 From: Jason King User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050718 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Venturoli References: <4329660E.5080601@informs.com> <432980A4.4010508@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <432980A4.4010508@netfence.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:51:05 -0000 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? 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"