From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 14:02:08 2004 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 BF28216A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 14:02:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.lame.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F40843D1D for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 14:02:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy.lame.at (home.lame.at [80.78.254.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by allrounder.lame.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AC6300BD for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:02:05 +0100 (CET) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:02:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412251502.04879.haimat@lame.at> Subject: Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 14:02:08 -0000 ---------- quoting Jonathan Reeder ---------- > Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, > is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a > software RAID instead of relying on the controller? > > I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly > appreciated. If you're using FreeBSD 5.3 than you should take a look at "man gmirror". This could be what you want. I am using it w/o any problems so far... HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- And remember not to act afraid. Animals can smell fear. And they don't like it. -- Homer Simpson The Call of the Simpsons