Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:52:46 -0600 From: "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> To: "'Danny Howard'" <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible Message-ID: <200503170156.j2H1uoi04496@fat_man.ascendency.net> In-Reply-To: <20050316022058.GH44253@ratchet.nebcorp.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard <mailto:dannyman@toldme.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: >> I tried following the instructions at: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work. >> >> I ended up installing a minimal installation on one disk, reooting >> to the new install, doing atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6, then >> rebooting to the install CD and installing into ar0. This seems to >> have worked. > > This all sounds extremely familiar. I did all of this, and it made me > very quesy. So, I ripped it out and tried again. > >> Is your solution better? > > You can deliver your own opinion, my resolution is at: > http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ > > Cheers, > -danny I was able to make the atacontrol method work flawlessly via a simulated disk failure (formated it and did a atacontrol rebuild). Is gmirror more reliable? I still don't understand gmirror, how it works and how to properly set one up. That's probably why I'm resistant to working with it. - ------------------------------ Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: mike@ascendency.net PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQjji7mjZbUnRudGOEQIDWgCdGFxrHT2XUptfsltycaI0bYcK5SwAn1ml ncVpUJu0bC0UgsqV1VSMNbcY =tKU6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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