Sunday, February 2, 2003, 1:50:20 PM, you wrote: P> Hello... I have three hard drives in my system. One of them (the first) P> is the system disk. I'm trying to get the other two ready to be a P> mirrored volume. No matter which of the last two drives is last, that P> one always is listed as "amnesiac" when I do a disklabel on it:
P> ============================== P> [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 P> # /dev/ar2: P> type: unknown P> disk: amnesiac P> label: fictitious P> flags: P> bytes/sector: 512 P> sectors/track: 63 P> tracks/cylinder: 255 P> sectors/cylinder: 16065 P> cylinders: 3737 P> sectors/unit: 60036417 P> rpm: 3600 P> interleave: 1 P> trackskew: 0 P> cylinderskew: 0 P> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds P> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds P> drivedata: 0 P> 8 partitions: P> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] P> c: 60036417 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 3737*) P> ============================== P> What does this mean? Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot P> "disklabel -e" to set its fstype to "vinum". P> Thanks, P> pete Maybe I'm being obvious here but have you tried a different cable and/or controller? First step: eliminate hardware as the cause. -- Ben mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message