On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > 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.
Yes, I saw mention of atacontrol somewhere in the handbook, the drives all SCSI. It seems atacontrol only addresses IDE? Excuse my ignorance on the subject of ATA vs SCSI :/ files# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: acd0 <CD-ROM 50X/10> ATA/ATAPI revision 0 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: no device present Slave: no device present -- Robert _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"