RAID 1 configuration failure(Provider Too Small)

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to setup a 2 disk RAID 1 on my Dell PE 1850 between two identical Seagate SCSI drives with the howto at: 
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
> 
> I am able to convert my root drive(da0) to geom and reboot just fine.  I am failing when I run:
> 
> |*gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da1*|
> 
> 
> The second step of converting the mirror drive of my RAID1 (da1) fails with the same "Provider da1 too small" error no matter what I attempt to do.  The drives are 
> reporting exactly the same size according to fdisk(see below).  Any ideas here?

fdisk? You are operating on raw disks, so it doesn't matter what
fdisk(8) reports. Compare disk sizes with diskinfo(8).

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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