Software RAID1

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Thu Sep 15 09:13:36 PDT 2005


> 
> 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?

ado, ad1....adnn are IDE devices.   da0, da1....dann are SCSI devices.
Use whichever you have.

////jerry

> 
> 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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