From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 01:53:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79D216A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:53:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7773E43D1D for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:53:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from fat_man.ascendency.net ([67.175.78.52]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20050317015307014004rujbe>; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:53:07 +0000 Received: from Mike8500 (c-67-173-128-145.client.comcast.net [67.173.128.145]) (authenticated) by fat_man.ascendency.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j2H1uoi04496; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:56:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Message-Id: <200503170156.j2H1uoi04496@fat_man.ascendency.net> From: "Mike Loiterman" To: "'Danny Howard'" Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:52:46 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <20050316022058.GH44253@ratchet.nebcorp.com> Thread-Index: AcUp9EGklo8s/lnEQCaYdFrBTFX9UwAn4hxw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mike@ascendency.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:53:09 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Danny Howard 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-----