From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 29 15:54:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mario.zyan.com (mario.zyan.com [209.250.96.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2047537B42C for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orville@weyrich.com) Received: from dopey.weyrich.com (orville@node-64-249-12-250.dslspeed.zyan.com [64.249.12.250]) by mario.zyan.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA93882 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orville@weyrich.com) Received: from localhost (orville@localhost) by dopey.weyrich.com (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA02663; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:55:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:55:51 -0700 (MST) From: "Orville R. Weyrich.Jr" To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID In-Reply-To: <20010403142812.A80970@myhakas.matti.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the pointer, but I have a new problem: The man pages say: vinum drives are UNIX disk partitions and must have the partition type vinum. This is different from ccd, which expects partitions of type 4.2BSD. How do I create a partition type vinum? FreeBSD fdisk seems to want a number not a name (e.g FreeBSD = 165). What number do I use for vinum? Thanks orville. On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:16:10AM -0700, "Orville R. Weyrich, JR." wrote: > > > I happen to have come by six identical 4.3 GB SCSI hard drives, and was > > wondering about an inexpensive way to make a FreeBSD server that uses > > them. My manual on FreeBSD covers version 3.2 -- I realize there are > > newer versions, but my search of the FreeBSD web site doesn't turn up my > > answer. > > > > Is there a way to implement RAID-5 with a couple standard SCSI > > controllers (the kind at eBay for under $100) or do I need to buy a > > specialized RAID-5 controller card? > > > > Am I asking for too much? :-) If it isn't too much, where do I go from > > here? > > You can use vinum volume manager, look at > http://www.vinumvm.org/ > > Use recent -stable for implementing vinum and beware that RAID-5 is > considered somewhat buggy, at least that's what I gather from > postings in the lists. Use two controllers, three disks each. > -- > > Vallo Kallaste > vallo@matti.ee > =================================================================== IF YOU WANT REFORM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VOTE REFORM ------------------------------------------------------------------- Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. Weyrich Computer Consulting mailto:orville@weyrich.com KD7HJV http://www.weyrich.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our online collection of book reviews: http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/ Ask about our world wide web services! ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message