From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 10 10:11:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A61237B409; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roary.excite.com ([199.172.148.162]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010910171135.JJIW11972.gigi.excite.com@roary.excite.com>; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:11:35 -0700 Message-ID: <8846549.1000141895110.JavaMail.imail@roary.excite.com> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:11:28 -0700 (PDT) From: john_wilson100@excite.com To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: HPT370 RAID or Vinum? Cc: sos@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 62.90.91.30 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I am trying to install FreeBSD on a (pseudo-) hardware ATA RAID volume which consists of two striped ATA disks connected to a Highpoint HPT370 controller. "Pseudo-" because FreeBSD detects the individual disks (ad4/ad6) as well as the striped volume (ar0). Besides the fact that ar0 isn't documented anywhere (except in /dev/MAKEDEV) and "man 4 ar" gives something completely irrelevant, which one is better to use: Highpoint built-in RAID (ar0), or ad4/ad6 striped with Vinum? I reckon if the RAID functions are implemented in HPT BIOS (in software), I'll be better off with Vinum. What do you guys think? Thanks John _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message