sara lidgey wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been running a server using FreeBSD 5.3 and gmirror to mirror two > identical IDE hard drives. Its been running great for over a year. But > recently everything went down and when I reboot and put a monitor on it I get > the following errors on screen: > > GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad1 disconnected > GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 destroyed > GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad0 stopped > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode... (this is followed by > details about the fault) > > These errors are preceded by other related error information that flys by on > the screen and I have no way of seeing them again. > > Does anyone now what steps I should take to figure what is going on and try > to recover data or get the machine to boot? >
Hi, Have you tried disconnecting ad1 and booting only with ad0? Maybe one of the drives just died on you. Try booting the system with one drive at a time connecting as a master (Primary on IDE1). Let us know how it goes. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
