From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 00:35:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20462 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 00:35:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20457 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 00:35:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA71017; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:35:28 GMT Message-ID: <366E364F.94D38EBC@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 08:35:27 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: Kent Ketell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Controllers Supported? References: <001a01be22f2$6b179450$e4504fcf@bilbo.juniper.net> <366D9E64.25CCEF3A@tdx.co.uk> <19981209090214.Q12688@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > Also (as Karl well knows) there's Vinum, a software RAID driver. It's > not what you asked for, but it may be what you want :-) > > Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. True, but I guess it all boils down to whether you want to boot off the RAID partition or not - for our production system this was important... If you need it bootable from RAID go with the hardware, if that's not a major requirement certainly look at Vinum (which will be bootable at some point in the future ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message