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Date:      Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:50:57 -0500
From:      Jason King <jking@informs.com>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Software RAID1
Message-ID:  <43298A51.8000901@informs.com>
In-Reply-To: <432980A4.4010508@netfence.it>
References:  <4329660E.5080601@informs.com> <432980A4.4010508@netfence.it>

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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?

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.
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