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Subject: Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
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---------- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter ----------
> Problem is, that man page says "atacontrol rebuild" is only valid on
> RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I
> can't use this command.

Ahh, would it be possible to dd data to the new disk?

And if yes: Is this the correct way create the array for the first time? I 
mean I have an existing installation on one disk. Now can I just dd data 
to the second disk, create mirror via atacontrol, edit fstab accordingly, 
and reboot into RAID without any other changes?

Greetings, Matthias

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