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Joshua Oreman writes:
 > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:04:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, George Hartzell wrote: 
 > [...]
 > > 
 > > Once it's running, how do I recover if/when a disk pukes.  It sounds
 > > like atacontrol's "rebuild" command only works w/ real controllers.
 > > Do I need to boot from a cd and then dd onto the new disk, or???  Do I
 > > need to add the new disk into the raid somehow?
 > 
 > I think Vinum or RAIDframe would be better if you want software RAID.
 > Both support booting from the RAID.

I don't think RAIDframe is supported in Stable, is it?

Is there a particular advantage to Vinum over the atacontrol stuff?

g.