Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:19:19 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Pete <pete-freebsd-hackers@toscano.org> Cc: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible? Message-ID: <xzpfzpvbk2g.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030309173835.GA21146@bubba.toscano.org> (Pete's message of "Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:38:35 -0500") References: <20030308162453.GB1436@bubba.toscano.org> <200303090907.h2997lV8091523@spider.deepcore.dk> <20030309173835.GA21146@bubba.toscano.org>
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Pete <pete-freebsd-hackers@toscano.org> writes: >> atacontrol create mirror ad6 ad7 > This is starting to _really_ confuse me. Does FreeBSD have two software > RAID systems? Yes (vinum and raidframe) > Is there something built into the ATA controller drivers > that can do software RAID too? It looks that way from that atacontrol > and ata man pages. No, but atacontrol knows how to configure hardware RAID controllers such as your Promise FastTrack. > Where does Vinum fit in here or is Vinum extraneous > now? Vinum is a volume manager with RAID functionality. > Is Vinum just a front-end to the ata system? No, it's completely device independent. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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