Ok, I made the correction and I'm still getting these errors: mail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=79 dd: /dev/da0: Operation not permitted mail# gmirror configure -a gm0 mail# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 Cannot access provider da0.
You can see from the above what section I am working on. It doesn't make sense to me. I'm following the instructions verbatim. I only created one slice and one partition. Any other ideas? Jason Jerry McAllister wrote: >>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. >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"