From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 22:36:54 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 2081416A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:36:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.lame.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65E343D1D for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:36:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy (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 E88F02FE87 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:36:15 +0100 (CET) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:36:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200410292355.43148.haimat@lame.at> <200410311942.00809.haimat@lame.at> <200410312234.38746.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200410312234.38746.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410312336.51501.haimat@lame.at> Subject: Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD? 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: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:36:54 -0000 ---------- quoting Emanuel Strobl ---------- > > 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. > > I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some > years ago) it was not in there. > You can use the rebuild command also on non-raid controllers, at least > it was possible for me when I did some tests about 3 months ago. Ok thx for that. Only one last question: Is it enough to just dd onto 2nd disk, create the raid via atacontrol and edit fstab to "ar0" to use it on root partition as well? Thx again for your help! Greetings, Matthias -- Homer: Aw, Marge, kids, I miss my club. Marge: Oh, Homey. You know, you are a member of a very exclusive club. Homer: The Black Panthers? Homer the Great