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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:50:03 +0200
From:      "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick-fbsdstable@mindstep.com>
To:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   the new ATA driver vs. vinum
Message-ID:  <DBEFLLCPEGLPEAGOPLIHIEEODKAA.patrick-fbsdstable@mindstep.com>

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Hi,

After reading the atacontrol(8) and ata(4) man pages for FreeBSD 4.6 release
I have a question: what is the preferred method for setting up some RAID
volumes with FreeBSD 4.6, knowing that I don't need RAID on the boot
partition ? Should I run vinum or use the features from the new ata driver ?

The documentation on vinum is really large and good, however the warnings in
the man page (especially the one against removing debug code) are puzzling.

The documentation of the RAID features of the new ata driver are scarce, and
after searching the FreeBSD site, I am still wondering how it should be
used. If someone can provide some pointers to more complete documentation,
this would be really welcome.

At this time, it seems that we have two concurent systems for 'simple' RAID
setups using IDE drives. The question now is which one should be used, or
maybe which one is best for what use.


Thanks,

Patrick.


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