Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family
controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB
and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the
controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded FreeBSD 6.0
onto the two IBM drives. Now, I wanted to mirror the other two for data
and looking for guidance as to whether it is first of all suited for
software RAID and if so, CCD or vinum. I am contemplating vinum because
the handbook mentions CCD is when cost is the important factor and for
me, is reliability. What would someone suggest? If vinum, one thing I
don't quite understand is do I create the partitions to be used in the
device? There doesn't seem to be a man for gvinum and the link to it in
the handbook section 19.6.1 is broken.
Just to give you another option. You can support RAID1 using atacontrol
to just make two disk into a RAID. Plenty of posts in the archive with
more info. As an outsider (i.e. without any RAID) this option always
seemed the simplest. No doubt other with experience can tell you the
relative merits of atacontrol vs gmirror.
--Alex
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