Gmirror unable to boot disks

[Colin Faber]

On 08/26/2010 11:05 AM, Damien Badio wrote:
> Hello List,
>
>   Sorry if this is the wrong list but I hadnt seen any others pertaining to
> gmirror. I currently have freebsd 8 release installed on a amd64 system,
> using 2 750GB hdd wth gmirror, setup as raid 1. I woke up this morning to a
> screen full of '#'. Rebooting, I am again greeted with a scrolling screen of
> '#'. I get to the freebsd boot screen, but am unable to boot using either
> disk. As well i am unable to mount these disks attaching them to another
> freebsd system. Is this a common experience? What other steps can i take to
> recover data from the mirror? I have seemingly checked google and have been
> unable to find anyone with a similar problem. Any advice? Thanks in advance!
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Both disks are unmountable? Did you fsck them first? What error do you 
receive when trying to mount them? Also, this sounds like hardware 
(controller) failure to me.

-cf