From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 10:17:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDA137B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tonnikala.nettikala.fi (tonnikala.nettikala.fi [212.182.218.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B94343F3F for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailing-lists@johanpaul.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tonnikala.nettikala.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FBB4200B5 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:17:18 +0300 (EEST) Received: by tonnikala.nettikala.fi (Postfix, from userid 612) id 445924200B6; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:17:18 +0300 (EEST) Received: from johanpaul.com (tellus.milkyway [10.0.42.1]) by tonnikala.nettikala.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829874200B5 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:17:17 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3F031396.5010908@johanpaul.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:17:10 +0300 From: Johan Paul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: fi, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3F01A9AE.5040700@johanpaul.com> <3F01FDC9.7000007@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <3F01FDC9.7000007@landgren.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=7.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.43-cvs X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 17:17:15 -0000 > Yes, the RAIDing is completely transparent to the OS. You don't even > have to reboot the machine if the disks are hot-swappable. Just pull the > dead one out, install the new one, and the controller will bring it up > to speed. RAID-1 is much faster to rebuild than RAID-5 (just a casual > observation; I'm not sure if that's a hard-and-fast rule). I just wanted to let you all know that I succesfully installed FreeBSD 4.8R with Promise FastTrak TX2 on a RAID1 using two IDE drives. Works like a charm all the way from installation! FreeBSD sees the RAID1 arrays as "ar0" and tells me that the two disks are 'READY' :) It's so nice to know that it actually works and one can be much more safe now than with software RAID... And the card wasn't even expensive. I just have to say that I had my doubts in the beginning, but luckely they were in vain! -- Johan