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Operating Systems Solaris Mirror data disk????
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Old 08-26-2006
Have you actually created a filesystem on the new mirror? If you are not just turning an exisitng filesystem into a mirror, you stil need to

newfs /dev/md/dsk/d60

(This will destroy any data already on the disks)

then you can mount it.
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