Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:00:05 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Pete Toscano <pete-freebsdquestions@toscano.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frustrating disklabel problem Message-ID: <20030104200005.GA4023@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030104162022.GA4732@bubba.toscano.org> References: <20030104162022.GA4732@bubba.toscano.org>
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# pete-freebsdquestions@toscano.org / 2003-01-04 11:20:22 -0500:
> I'm trying to set up a vinum mirrored plex on my 4.7-STABLE (cvsup-ed as
> of yesterday, 1/3) system. I have 3 30GB drives. Currently, only the
> first disk is being used. This disk has all the system along with all
> my digital photos and videos. I'd like to mirror the other two 30GB
> drives and move the digital photos and videos there, so that if one
> drive were to die, I'd still have these important pictures and videos.
>
> There is one (I hope) bit of strangeness about this system. I was initially
> using a Promise FastTrack 100 (pdc20267 chip) card. Since I was having
> problems with this, I recently got a cheap Maxtor adapter card. This
> Maxtor card looks to be a relabeled Promise card with the pdc20269 chip.
> The problem below is the same, regardless of which card is used.
hmm, why are you trying to create a software mirror if you have a
card that does that? you use vinum when you don't have a RAID card.
you don't need it when you do have one.
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