From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 2 16:02:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13233 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:02:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12899 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:59:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA09765; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:58:50 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34D65DBA.B9B60A34@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 23:58:50 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chaos@tgci.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raid/mirroring controller support References: <199802022313.PAA16063@train.tgci.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Simon Shapiro is working on DPT drivers for the DPT range of hardware RAID / caching controllers... There very nice controllers - and can do mirroring etc. - albeit they are quite expensive... See "ftp://nomis.simon-shapiro.org/crash" for more details... Better than ccd as at least you can boot the machine with a 'failed' drive, but as I say - not 'cheap' :-( Regards, Karl Pielorz Riley J. McIntire wrote: > > Is there support for any hardware raid 1 (mirroring / duplexing) > controllers such as the Adaptec aaa131? > > I've looked at ccd and think a hardware solution, if it exists, would > be more suitable. > > Thanks, > > Riley