From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 2:19:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293A237B404 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:19:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE1143F75 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 844E15308; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:19:19 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Pete Cc: Soeren Schmidt , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible? From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:19:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030309173835.GA21146@bubba.toscano.org> (Pete's message of "Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:38:35 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <20030308162453.GB1436@bubba.toscano.org> <200303090907.h2997lV8091523@spider.deepcore.dk> <20030309173835.GA21146@bubba.toscano.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pete 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