Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:02:18 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, jim@nasby.net, laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020713100218.B284@twincat.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020713075109.06ecf02f.steve@sohara.org>; from steve@sohara.org on Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:51:09AM %2B0200 References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> <20020713032546.GD61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020713075109.06ecf02f.steve@sohara.org>
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:51:09AM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:55:46 +0930 > Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > G> The question was about software RAID. That's currently still not > G> possible. > > OK now I'm confused - if you set up a RAID1 array with atacontrol > on a standard (non RAID) controller what's doing the RAID if it isn't the > ata driver software ? > > -- > C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors That would be nothing. You can do software raid with vinum or some other utility, or you can do hardware ata raid with a promise or highpoint controller and interface to it with atacontrol. You can't use atacontrol to make a standard non-raid IDE controller do raid. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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