gmirror component disappears

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:26:13PM +0200, Ferruccio Zamuner wrote:
> Pavel wrote:
> 
> >Look into your logs, the disk has probably bad blocks.
> 
> I'd a failure on ad6 (Maxtor has a low quality at least on ATA) last week, then I've bought a brand new hd and yesterday I've replaced it.
> I hope that new one is not fault again.
> 
> 
> In /var/log/messages:
> 
> Oct  9 14:53:28 k7 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device root: rebuilding provider ad6s1a.
> Oct  9 14:53:28 k7 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Synchronization request failed (error=1). ad6s1a[WRITE(offset=0, length=131072)]
> Oct  9 14:53:28 k7 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device root: provider ad6s1a disconnected.
> Oct  9 14:53:28 k7 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device root: rebuilding provider ad6s1a stopped.
> 
> This seems not an hardware problem. What do you think?

Verify with bsdlabel(8) that you 'a' partition doesn't start at offset
0. If it starts there, you should recreate your partitions with
bsdlabel(8). sysinstall(8) create that bogus partitions at offset 0.

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