Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:22:44 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Michael DeMutis <mike@2gen.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERC2 RAID support in 4.1-STABLE Message-ID: <v04220801b5ff7fb53370@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20001003021515.01138b00@tristo.netinc.ca> References: <3.0.3.32.20001003021515.01138b00@tristo.netinc.ca>
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At 2:15 AM -0400 2000/10/3, Michael DeMutis wrote: > How is the Dell PERC2 RAID support in 4.1-STABLE? > > I have a server being delivered in a week and it's running a 2 disk array. > > Is this going to be a nightmare to setup? > > I'll be installing 4.x from scratch, and I'd like full LVL 5 RAID support. > The machine has to boot from the RAID device. Is there a process I should > follow for installation? My understanding of the RAID-5 algorithm is that it requires a minimum of three drives to operate (two for data, the third for parity). Otherwise, you might as well just use RAID-1, a.k.a. mirroring (one data, one parity). I don't know how the PERC2 card functions in this situation, but I'd be willing to guess that they do the same. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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