From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 23:57:54 2003 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 23B2D16A4CF for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mmp-3.gci.net (mmp-3.gci.net [208.138.130.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DCD43F3F for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:57:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joepok@ninestar.com) Received: from JOETABLET (89-6-237-24.gci.net [24.237.6.89]) by mmp-3.gci.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HNG00B2TJGET9@mmp-3.gci.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:57:50 -0900 (AKST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:57:35 -0900 From: Joe Pokupec To: Freebsd-Questions Message-id: <005301c39d29$291b70b0$7807a8c0@JOETABLET> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Subject: RAID 0 After the install? 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: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:57:54 -0000 Hey All, I'd like to use RAID 0 one ATA in my FreeBSD box (it's 4.7 right now, but I plan to upgrade to 5.1 this week). I have some basic questions, if they've been answered already, maybe someone could point me to a link: - If I use a hardware ATA RAID card, are there certain system settings required for FreeBSD to recognize this, or is the RAID format done at a platform-independent level (BIOS or other boot utilities)? - If one of the 2 hard drives fail, the data will still be visible and accessible on the remaining drive correct? How easy is it to replace the failed drive? Will the data from the good drive automatically copy over to the newly replaced drive or are there a lot of shenanigans involved? - Is it possible to stripe only 1 drive as RAID 0 with the intention of dropping in another drive later? The idea here would be stripe the first drive, copy the data from the data drive to the newly striped drive, then add the second drive. This would save the need to find a 3rd large hard drive for the transfer process. Thanks Joe