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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:56:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ccd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117225407.6065f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980117083928.2007B-100000@lessing.oit.umass.edu>

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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Greg Pavelcak wrote:

> I'm running short on hard disk space, and I'm thinking about getting a
> new drive to add to my setup. That leads me to a few ccd questions. I
> hope this isn't a repost. I've been getting my lists now for over two
> days and haven't seen it show up.
> 
> 1. Any advice on what to read on ccd. I read man ccd, man ccdconfig,
> and the diskformat tutorial. They seem to be more for the person who
> understands what ccd is but doesn't know how to make it happen on
> FreeBSD. So ...
> 
> 2. Can you ccd IDE devices, or is it a SCSI thing?

You can CCD any disk, as long as they are identical.

> 3. Can you do ccdconfig at any time. That is, it seems like something
> one would want to do early on, perhaps at the beginning of the
> installation process, and then make file systems on ccd. 

You have to do it at filesystem create time, since you make the
pseudodevice with ccdconfig then newfs it.

> I'll hit the mailing list archives when the search facility comes back
> up, but I thought no one would mind if I sought up to date advice
> while I'm waiting.

http://stampede.cs.berkeley.edu/ccd/README-s.html may help, although it is
very old.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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