From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 5:29:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B3B37B722 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 05:29:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@myhakas.matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246292CFB4; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:29:13 +0200 (EET) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.matti.ee (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f33CSCY81367; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:28:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:28:12 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: "Orville R. Weyrich, JR." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Message-ID: <20010403142812.A80970@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <3AC986CA.22038A9A@weyrich.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i-ja0 In-Reply-To: <3AC986CA.22038A9A@weyrich.com>; from orville@weyrich.com on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:16:10AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:16:10AM -0700, "Orville R. Weyrich, JR." wrote: > I happen to have come by six identical 4.3 GB SCSI hard drives, and was > wondering about an inexpensive way to make a FreeBSD server that uses > them. My manual on FreeBSD covers version 3.2 -- I realize there are > newer versions, but my search of the FreeBSD web site doesn't turn up my > answer. > > Is there a way to implement RAID-5 with a couple standard SCSI > controllers (the kind at eBay for under $100) or do I need to buy a > specialized RAID-5 controller card? > > Am I asking for too much? :-) If it isn't too much, where do I go from > here? You can use vinum volume manager, look at http://www.vinumvm.org/ Use recent -stable for implementing vinum and beware that RAID-5 is considered somewhat buggy, at least that's what I gather from postings in the lists. Use two controllers, three disks each. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message