Software RAID1

Andrea Venturoli ml.diespammer at netfence.it
Thu Sep 15 07:12:53 PDT 2005


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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