Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:58:55 -0900 From: Peter Giessel <pgiessel@mac.com> To: "Roger. O. Svenning" <roger@audioweb.no> Cc: Jonathan Reeder <jreeder@minutemenu.com> Subject: Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead? Message-ID: <15377720.1103648335629.JavaMail.pgiessel@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <41C84ACA.9080407@audioweb.no> References: <NIECLIJFBLKHJMOALIKPOEGCCNAA.jreeder@minutemenu.com> <41C84ACA.9080407@audioweb.no>
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On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 07:15AM, Roger. O. Svenning <roger@audioweb.no> wrote: >Jonathan Reeder wrote: > >>Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is >>there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software >>RAID instead of relying on the controller? >> >>I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly >>appreciated. >> >AFAIK you cant use software RAID on your system drives as the system has >to boot before software RAID can be loaded. >Thus you would need a dedicated system drive which the system can boot >from in order to load software raid on the other two disks. Not true. Vinum is your friend (starting on the 16th page of the PDF): http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf If you are using 5.3, you probably want to look into gvinum...
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