From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 10:41:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05302 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:41:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05088 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA13713; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:38:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:38:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Robert Murch cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID controllers In-Reply-To: <34E96C4A.7726EAE1@ninkaplast.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Robert Murch wrote: > I have just received FreeBSD from Walnut Creek and have also just > ordered a new server using a RAID adaptor and 3 Ultra wide SCSI disks. > Bearing in mind that I know nothing about RAID or FreeBSD, can anyone > tell me whether I can run FreeBSD using RAID, and how do I go about > configuring it. FreeBSD's RAID support is pretty limited at current. Your best bet is to find a controller that presents the entire array as a single disk. Or use ccd for a software RAID (striping). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message