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Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid
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Hi,

Sorry if this is dumb question.

I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this up 
so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250 Gbyte 
drives (ad3 and ad4) to hold data. I would like to mirror them using sofware 
raid and mount them as /home to hold the users data which is critical.

I have read the manual and searched the web for a simple way to do the above. 
The manual seems to cover complex solutions and may be somewhat behind the 
times. 

I guess what I am looking for is a howto couched in such a way that even a 
windows user can understand :-).

Any suggestions please.

Rob